Comments on: Mentors, Patrons & the Usefulness of Tradition http://www.workbloom.net/mentors-patrons-the-usefulness-of-tradition/ Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:20:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jack TG http://www.workbloom.net/mentors-patrons-the-usefulness-of-tradition/comment-page-1/#comment-171 Jack TG Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:28:02 +0000 http://www.workbloom.net/?p=667#comment-171 I see your point, but I wouldn't go as far as making a blanket statement that corporate mentorship cannot be real mentorship. If we can find someone on our organization that is willing to support our development, that's a mentor to me. The problem may be to find such person. Also, there is nothing wrong for the mentor's goal to also be in line with that of the organization. Long distance mentorship can only go so far because the mentor is not present and may not have a real sense of what's going on, except for hearsay. It's like taking a course online versus attending classes with a professor present. Maybe the solution is not to limit ourselves to one mentor, but to seek advice from various sources. I see your point, but I wouldn’t go as far as making a blanket statement that corporate mentorship cannot be real mentorship. If we can find someone on our organization that is willing to support our development, that’s a mentor to me. The problem may be to find such person. Also, there is nothing wrong for the mentor’s goal to also be in line with that of the organization. Long distance mentorship can only go so far because the mentor is not present and may not have a real sense of what’s going on, except for hearsay. It’s like taking a course online versus attending classes with a professor present.

Maybe the solution is not to limit ourselves to one mentor, but to seek advice from various sources.

]]> By: Ms. Dylan Rodrigues http://www.workbloom.net/mentors-patrons-the-usefulness-of-tradition/comment-page-1/#comment-170 Ms. Dylan Rodrigues Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:17:22 +0000 http://www.workbloom.net/?p=667#comment-170 Hello, I run The Mentorship Network for Women, a community of adult women that enables career-focused relationships by matching women as mentees and mentors. This site arose from my own experience with finding women mentors that propelled my career forward and my inability at points in my career to find the much needed perspective of an older, wiser woman. Corporate mentorship as you describe is not really mentorship in my opinion. It's a way for an organization to use existing resources to save on training programs and advance corporate goals and culture. The new mentorship opportunities that produce personal career success will be based on being able to reach out to people beyond one's own organization by finding mentorship relationships online or through local business networks. The distance and anonymity of the internet has spawned a whole new network of mentorship that focuses on the person's goals and not the company's. Hello,

I run The Mentorship Network for Women, a community of adult women that enables career-focused relationships by matching women as mentees and mentors. This site arose from my own experience with finding women mentors that propelled my career forward and my inability at points in my career to find the much needed perspective of an older, wiser woman.

Corporate mentorship as you describe is not really mentorship in my opinion. It’s a way for an organization to use existing resources to save on training programs and advance corporate goals and culture. The new mentorship opportunities that produce personal career success will be based on being able to reach out to people beyond one’s own organization by finding mentorship relationships online or through local business networks. The distance and anonymity of the internet has spawned a whole new network of mentorship that focuses on the person’s goals and not the company’s.

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