Building Stronger Women through Mentoring

Portlandia’s Better Together mentoring program builds strong relationships and improves women’s lives, careers and self esteem.  Most of the women looking for a mentor need someone to listen, not necessarily to advise or solve their problems.  Your friendship and support will boost their self esteem and increase their success while enhancing your own in ways you may not expect. That’s why mentoring make you Better Together.

Some of the women seeking your help are looking for employment and want to enhance their skills that will help them land a job.   Others in the program already have jobs and are involved with the Dress for Success Professional Women’s Group.  They need help with life-enhancing skills such as goal setting, relationship building and career advancement.

The Benefits of Mentoring

For the mentor

Aside from the genuine joy in helping another woman, mentors may be surprised to find  unexpected benefits:

• Reflecting: Helping others prompts you to examine your own knowledge, skills and practices.  It helps you validate your own experiences as you share them.
• Renewing:  Mutual discovery gives you new insight.  Setting an example challenges you to be better.
• Re-energizing: Helping another empowers you, boosts your self-esteem and revitalizes you in   your personal and professional life.

 For the mentee

• Self-discovery: Talking to another woman helps a woman discover her potential.  Many of these women have never had someone really listen or believe in their potential.
• Synergism: Two heads are truly better than one.  Better Together recognizes that ideas and strategies that spring from two minds are far better than the sum of the parts.  Both parties win.
• Success: With the support and guidance of the mentor, women can really blossom and reach their potential.