Resources for participants
Below are session topic readings for the Women’s Mentoring Programme. These links are freely available web material unless stated.
1. Working with a mentor
- How A Mentor Can Help Your Career – Forbes
- Find and Work With a Mentor – Alberta Learning Information Service
- Top 10 Qualities of a Good Mentor – Franchise Growth Partners
2. Making a great first impression
- Making a Great First Impression – Mindtools
- How to make a great first impression – The Guardian
- Making a first impression - Harvard Business Review
3. Building rapport
- Building Rapport – SkillsYouNeed
- 10 easy ways to build a quick rapport with anyone – The Week
- Building rapport - Mindtools
4. Networking
- Networking When You Hate Talking to Strangers – Harvard Business Review
- Tips for Successful Business Networking – The Balance Careers
- Networking – Forbes
5. Being resilient
- Developing Resilience: Overcoming and Growing From Setbacks – Mindtools
- How Resilience Works – Harvard Business Review
- Why resilience can make or break your career – Forbes
6. Building your brand
- 7 Things You Can Do To Build An Awesome Personal Brand – Forbes
- Building your own brand - Harvard Business Review
- Build your personal brand when job hunting - Careers NZ
7. Learning the job
- 19 Tips for Making a Great Impression at Your New Job – LiveCareer
- Starting a new job? Here's a few tips for those first few months – Living Moxie
- 10 Tips for Adjusting to New Surroundings – Huffington Post
8. Work-life balance
- Arianna Huffington On The Struggle To Find Work-Life Balance – Fast Company
- Nigel Marsh: How to make work-life balance work – TED video
- Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life – Harvard Business Review
9. Dealing with conflict
Additional readings
- How to be Assertive: Asking for What You Want Firmly and Fairly – Mindtools
- Why Confidence Is So Important (And How To Improve Yours) – Lifehacker
- 7 Steps to Positive Assertiveness – Donna Schilder