PODCAST
Mentoring As Part of Your Diversity & Inclusion Strategy (What’s the Difference? | March 2020)
What you’ll learn in this episode:
- Lisa shares how she found her passion for diversity and inclusion work when she brought her mother Lois to her workplace to help set up a women’s mentoring program
- Why mentoring programs can help build meaningful business relationships across differences and help empower people to thrive in their careers
- Why Lisa feels that diversity and inclusion training by itself doesn’t work, and why it needs other programs to support it
- Why successful diversity and inclusion initiatives create a fundamental cultural change throughout all levels of an organization
- Why a mentorship needs to be a two-way relationship between the mentor and the mentee, and why the mentorship needs ground rules and clear communication
- Why it is important to measure the success and progress of a mentorship through mutually established and agreed-upon goals
- Why leadership skills don’t necessarily imply mentoring skills, and why developing your mentoring ability is an important ongoing process
- Why listening is a cornerstone skill that an effective mentor needs to have, and why leaders may struggle to listen effectively
- Lisa shares an experience she had with a well-meaning senior partner while working at a law firm after returning from maternity leave
- Lisa shares an important takeaway from her book, Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring
