Information about the 2008 Mentoring Program Click here for details |
The Women's Planning Network and the Planning Institute of Australia (Vic Division) offer a 9 month mentor program matching experienced professionals as mentors with enthusiastic mentees.
| Mentoring is a powerful form of personal and professional development for both mentee and mentor. Mentees grow and develop with the focused attention and targeted assistance of the mentor, and mentors reap the rewards of watching the development of a protege, feeling valued and even rethinking one's own style, skills and methods. |  |
| Mentees - you will grow and develop with the focused attention of your mentor. You will meet with your mentor regularly (commonly for an hour or 2 each fortnight) and you will surprise yourself with what you learn and how you change. |
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Mentors - you will reap the benefits of watching the development of your mentee, you'll feel valued and may even rethink and refine your style, skills and methods. |
| The program is jointly run by the Women's Planning Network and PIA, so it is equally open to men and women in planning and associated professions who may want to form a mentoring partnership with a similarly-placed peer. It benefits from a wide range of participants and different professional backgrounds and skill bases often contribute to the best learning opportunities within the pairs. The Program brings people together and benefits participants more than any other professional development program. The focused attention and targeted assistance of mentoring will help you achieve success your way. |
Previous participants have said:
"The program has helped me to listen and to analyse the bigger picture. I also now have the confidence to seek other advice and feedback."
"I am much more confident in my own ability. I've learnt a good deal about strategic planning, and have much more motivation to try new things and strive for goals that I would have previously thought unrealistic."
The Winter 2005 issue of Vantage focuses on leadership and mentoring and includes articles where particpants reflect on their experiences of the program
>> Download issue now (PDF file).