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Happy Monday!
Hope everyone had a great Easter week-end, and is ready to start this new week with as much chutzpah as it took to eat all those delicious Easter treats (you know who you are)…
And on days like today after a major holiday week-end, nothing like some healthy motivation to push us to produce our best work! Speaking of motivation, no one doubts the power of mentoring, especially when it comes to women’s careers. Yet very often, we tend to look more at what here at The Corporate Sister, we call vertical mentoring, as opposed to horizontal or peer mentoring.
I’ve had the opportunity to experience peer mentorship, and was pleasantly surprised with the results and long-lasting impact of it. While traditional mentoring implies a relationship between a role model figure and an aspiring employee or subordinate, peer mentoring has the advantage of leveling career-minded employees at comparable levels, thus fostering a sense of fellowship and comraderie.
Instead of looking up at one’s mentor as the idealistic representation of our career’s ambitions on a long-term basis, we can now look at a peer mentor as the attainable, concrete representation of our short-term career goals.
Don’t get me wrong, having an influential mentor in a higher-up position is an invaluable asset in one’s career. Benefiting from the experience, know-how, insights and even network of such mentors can propel us further in our careers faster than we could think possible.
However, many times we lack the immediate, short-term practical boost to step up the corporate ladder. And that’s exactly the added advantage that peer mentoring, at all levels of our career growth, can bring us…
Have you benefited from peer mentoring at work?
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