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Mentees
As a mentor, it’s crucial to engage effectively with your mentee and ensure that the purpose of your mentorship is being fulfilled. This often means receiving feedback and input from your mentee to know whether you are making a difference. In this blog, we will discuss how to set your own…
31 May 2024
Mentoring is a journey of mutual learning and growth, benefiting both the mentee and the mentor. Mentors aim to provide value, foster open communication, and inspire action. However, moments of uncertainty may arise about our impact, difficulties in engaging in meaningful discussions, and…
10 April 2024
Completing your profile isn’t just a formality; it’s a strategic step that can significantly impact the quality of matches you receive. Your profile is your digital introduction to potential mentors and mentees. It’s a snapshot of your professional and personal background, highlighting…
17 October 2023
Mentors
Mentoring and coaching are two different forms of guidance and support. The main difference is the expectations of a coach vs the expectations of a mentor. These expectations are reflective of the variation between coaches and mentors when it comes to cost, experience, and training, and…
20 April 2023
Take a minute to think about the best mentor you’ve ever had. It could be your boss, a colleague, a parent, a friend, a coach, or a college professor. Then, you reach a point in your life where you have the chance to do the same for someone else. It can be both exciting, and…
7 July 2022
When we ask women who have an interest in being mentors, why they haven’t put themselves forward, one of the most common responses we hear is that they don’t think they have enough experience to share. You wouldn’t believe the credentials and experience of the women who are saying this.…
8 June 2022
We have some exciting product updates to share with you. We now have 400+ women signed up to be matched, from over 20 countries, which is incredibly exciting. To date, we have been making almost all of the mentor matches manually. We have a lot of data to go through to make a match,…
26 July 2021
Communication
This blog provides a tool for mentors and mentees to create more structure and check-ins within their relationship if this is something the mentor and mentee want to incorporate. OneUpOneDown mentor matches are three months long. Mentor and mentees meet at least four times during this…
25 March 2021
One of the surprising realizations we’ve had since starting OneUpOneDown is that the experience of being a mentor is as valuable as being a mentee. Most people think that mentorship is primarily for the benefit of the mentee. However, this is not the case. It’s a rich learning and joyful…
15 March 2021
The following video sets out the simple steps you’ll need to take in order to be ready to be matched with a mentor or mentee. There are mandatory steps that we require in order to be able to start looking for a match for you. Be aware that you will not be matched with a…
9 March 2021
One of the values OneUpOneDown is built on is lifelong learning. That is, to never assume you know, or should know, all the answers and instead seek opportunities to learn and improve. This underlying belief about learning is what Stanford researcher Carol Dweck describes as the “growth…
9 February 2021
We all have emotions, no matter who we are or how well we have trained ourselves to manage them. They come and go, all the time. What sets people apart is their ability to understand their emotions, see them for what they are and respond accordingly. The Observer and the Reactor are two…
24 December 2020
