Learn about Mentorship
Resources in this category are focused on mentorship as a concept and practice that contributes to Positive Youth Development (PYD). Search for content to help you deepen your understanding of research and evidence on the role of mentorship to support young people across a range of topics and issues.
Article
- 8 Tips for An Amazing Mentor Relationship - This article from Forbes offers advice on mentorship, with perspectives from successful tech professionals.
- What Great Mentorship Looks Like in a Hybrid Work Place - This article helps you find that by embracing the digital tools you have, you can build an even more robust mentorship program than you had before.
- The Value of Mentorship in a Time of Change and Challenge - This article highlights how mentoring helps individuals and organizations address complex, multi-faceted problems.
- 5 Ways to Use Mentoring to Create an Inclusive Workplace - This is an article written by Training Industry, where they share five ways to use mentoring to create an inclusive workplace as they believe that there is a growing consensus that inclusive work environments yield better results.
Blog Post
- What is the Purpose of Mentoring? - This article discusses what mentorship is, what skills you gain from mentoring, what benefits exist, and how to start a mentorship program.
- Mentoring Program Won't Forward DEI Without Intention - This short yet insightful blog post article covers the barrier that informal mentoring presents and offers practical ways to build an intentionally inclusive mentoring program.
- Best Practices for Implementing a Mentoring Program for Diverse Employees - This short blog post article offers seven best practices for implementing a mentoring program for diverse employees.
Manual or Handbook
- Skills for Successful Mentoring - This 16-page PDF offers practical guidelines and assessments on successful mentoring.
Toolkit
- Youth Mentoring Programs: Recruiting Mentors for Your Programs - This resource covers the details of recruiting mentors for programs
- Youth Mentoring Programs: Training Adult Mentors - This article overviews how to train adult mentors.
- Youth Mentoring Programs: Getting Feedback: Keeping Your Mentoring Program Relevant and Successful - This resource offers practical and detailed guidance on how to keep your mentoring program relevant and successful.
- Youth Mentoring Programs: Youth Goal Setting - This resource outlines how and why to establish goals with your mentor/mentee.
- Youth Mentoring Programs: Building Youth Mentoring Programs - This article details what a mentoring program is, why you should set one up, and how to decide whether or not it is the right choice for you.
Video
- Why the Power of Mentoring can Change the World - This 16-minute TedX Event by Shirley Liu speaks to the fact that if you want to learn a powerful lesson about yourself, become a mentor.
Website
- Resource Library: Chronus - This resource library offers the latest in mentoring best practices to help take your program to the next level including webinars, in-depth whitepapers and case studies from Chronus customers.
- Articles: Center for Mentoring Excellence - This website provides mentoring expertise and thought leadership in mentoring for mentors, mentees and organizations.