What’s your Problem?
There is a lot of
hype about mentoring in the business world. The more I have read about the
success of mentoring the more intrigued I am. What I don’t understand is, men
still advance higher and more rapidly than women. The question is why?
Why has mentoring
become stagnate?
We know that some
people are still stuck in their ways with that “good old boy” mentality and
their perceptions of commendable women contending for equal pay and higher
positions is never going to change. No one knows for sure if this will fade
with the retiring of older generations.
We also know that
women tend to be insecure and second guess themselves. The concept of feeling
like a fraud tends to lead individuals to not trust the capability within
themselves making them feel fraudulent. Just because women are not likely to
articulate their own desires or wants, does not make them inept or less
deserving of career enhancement.
The mentoring
problem is within the concept itself. The terminology of mentoring needs to
improve in order to correct what is lacking, to establish vital progression for
one and all.
Let’s shed a
different light on the matter. Consider mentoring to be more of a sponsorship,
where a senior not only mentors, but contends for their protégée’s deserving
respect allowing developmental growth for individuals and companies to
flourish. After all a well-developed company is a strong competitive business.
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