In its simplest form it provides a learning relationship where two people listen, share and challenge each other. Mentoring can be appropriate at any stage in your career. Although traditionally thought of as an experienced colleague acting as a mentor to a young mentee, it can also be useful at later stages in your career – especially if you have moved to a new sector or take on additional tasks.
Are you looking for support, advice and guidance on the next step in your career or on managing difficult situations? Or perhaps you're an experienced treasurer and could share your experience to help other members?
As part of the ACT's commitment to support members' professional development, you can join our mentoring scheme, Mentor Me. This is provided for the ACT by PLD Mentoring.
Our mentoring scheme is designed to help members and students with the ‘soft skills’ needed to succeed. We encourage all members to take part: from students who are new to treasury or the ACT, to our retired members, who will be able to pass on their experiences and life skills.
Listen to Chris Murray, Founder of PLD Mentoring, talk through the different aspects of the ACT scheme and discuss the benefits of mentoring. Watch the video on the ACT Mentor Me scheme here.
The mentoring scheme matches members and students with each other. Our online platform will help to make the initial match, based on areas of common interest and experience.
The matching service works on the following parameters:
Both the mentor and mentee are asked to specify the areas they would like to discuss. The mentor provides a career outline and a profile. The mentee then provides a profile and proposal, outlining what they would like to get support in. When a mentor and mentee are matched their profile and proposal are exchanged. The parties then decide whether they are happy to work together and agree (or not) to be connected. We recommend that you set out some parameters at the outset to check how you will work together. Key things to agree at this stage include: How will you communicate (by email, Skype etc). How often will you communicate (we recommend an hour a month).
We recommend our mentors and mentees commit to working together for an hour a month. Initially both parties should agree a target objective for the mentoring relationship, and we would recommend using the road map provided within the scheme to help agree objectives and structure your mentoring journey.
Our online platform will help to make the initial match, based on common interest and experience. When joining the scheme, mentees can specify areas of knowledge and expertise they would like to improve. The platform also contains a wealth of resources and tools with advice and guidance to help you make the most of your experience.
We have written a number of articles to help both mentors and mentees with building and maintaining the mentoring relationship. These include: The power of a good mentoring relationship, how to make the most of being mentored, and making a mentoring relationship work.
We are working with an external provider called PLD to provide the mentoring scheme. Please note that the ACT Mentor Me scheme is a software application licensed to ACT but owned and operated by PLD. In addition to PLD’s Terms and Conditions for the use of its software applications, your use of the ACT Mentor Me scheme is also governed by the following terms of use:
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