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Young SIETAR Mentorship Program is
Up and Running
This is an invitation
to SIETAR Europa members to take advantage of the
opportunity to become a mentor to a younger interculturalist. The Young SIETAR
mentorship program offers online sign-up for potential mentors and mentees. We
have appended to the letter a copy of the Mentorship Manual developed for this
program.
Dear YS Friend,
The YS Mentorship Programme is perhaps one of the oldest and at the same
time youngest YS projects that you can take an active role in.
The main idea of this programme is to establish a closer link in the form of a
mentor-mentee-relationship between you, the professional interculturalist, and
us, the intercultural newcomers. Such direct interaction has many advantages
for both sides as it allows the mentee to receive support in his or her projects
from you as experienced professional. It also enables you as the mentor to
obtain new creative ideas and inspiration from young intercultural talents.
In order to match mentors and mentees, we have set up a mentorship site
sponsored by Intercultural Change Management at
www.flatmaster.com/ysmentorship. There, both mentors
and mentees can enter
their profiles and approach each other. The matching process works both ways:
either you as a mentor choose directly from the mentee-profiles who you want
to coach, or the mentee browses through the mentor-profiles and gets in
contact with his or her preferred mentor (please note that if you as a mentor
want to take a temporary break or have already chosen your mentee(s), the
site offers the possibility to “hide” your profile). This procedure allows the
perfect matching of both mentors and mentees according to specific interests,
research projects and professional orientations. Mentors and mentees can freely
decide on the length of their co-operation, whether it’s only for a single project
or a long-term relationship – it’s up to you to make it happen! As you can see, the Mentorship Programme has a lot of potential and surely is
one more step towards better networking in the intercultural field. We all know
how important networking is, especially between today’s and tomorrow’s
professionals. Therefore, we will be happy to welcome you on board. Please log
on to www.flatmaster.com/ysmentorship and register
as a mentor. You will then
be provided with a username and password for the mentorship site. Should you
have any questions contact ysmentorship@yahoo.com. We hope that your investment in our global community will be a fun and
enriching experience.
Interculturally,
The Mentorship Team
Young Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research
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two people share two dollars, each goes away with one dollar.
If two people share two ideas, each goes away with two ideas.”
Mentorship Programme Manual
This guide is to help you find your way through the new Young SIETAR
Mentorship Programme. Should you need further assistance, contact
ysmentorship@yahoo.com.
Requesting Mentorship - for whom: Students, newcomers and people
interested in the field of intercultural communication. Everybody requesting
information and guidance from professionals in work assignments related to
culture.
Offering Mentorship - for whom: Work experienced people who want to share
their knowledge and thinking on culture with newcomers to the field.
Mentorship Website - how it works: The special feature of Young SIETAR is
kindly provided by Intercultural Change Management. The mentorship site is
accessible through http://www.flatmaster.com/ysmentorship.
Members:
Registered Young SIETAR members will be provided with username and password
upon reception of their membership payment (that means, that the service is
for members of Young SIETAR only and free of charge). The username and
password will be valid for one year. Membership will then have to be renewed.
Mentors:
Mentors will also be provided with username and password once they have
registered at the site www.flatmaster.com/ysmentorship.
Username and
password are valid until a mentor decides not to take part in the program
anymore.
Mentorship Website - log-in: You will be asked to choose from a pull down
menu if you log in as a mentor, mentee or administrator.
Mentorship Website - its features: You can lock, unlock (no visible contact
details), edit and delete your own profile. And you can view profiles which are
unlocked by the owner of the profile.
Mentorship Website - how to choose a mentor/mentee: Please follow the
instructions below:
Step 1: Enter your profile on the website (choose your respective section:
“mentor” or “mentee”).
Step 2: Choose your mentor/mentee by browsing through the database or by
the using the search engine (enter key words). We ask you to always keep your
profile up-to-date and to be sure to “lock” your profile if you are temporarily
unavailable or if you are already in a mentor-mentee relationship and don’t want
more people to get in touch with you.
Step 3: Contact your chosen mentor/mentee (see contact info in profiles).
Mentorship Website - how to measure the success of the program: We
kindly request mentees to complete a mentorship report every three months. A
report form is provided in the report section. The completed reports are stored
and available for everybody.
Mentorship Website - how to interact with each other: In the discussion
forum you can post messages, ask questions and share your experience with
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