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Cross Mentoring for Women Programme
Best Practice
Promoter Information:
Name: PWN-Professional Women Network
Email: None
Website: None
Abstract:
The aim of the Cross Mentoring Programme is to achieve women' goals, whether getting a promotion, making a career change or starting a business. Mentoring is important at every stage of a person’s career, whether they are just starting out or are a CEO. The Programme serves to help both young and experienced professionals alike. Mentoring is a voluntary developmental relationship between an expert (Mentor) who is willing to share her/his knowledge and experiences with one or more people (Mentees) wanting to learn and profit from guidance to develop their personal or professional skills (Mentees). In the Programme Mentoring is used to create Gender Balanced Leadership and facilitate women in accessing top positions. Mentoring is a method proven to help more women advance in their careers and into leadership positions. Hence, it focuses on motivated, career-minded female employees. Initiated by the pilot project “Mentoring for Women” in 2000, the Cross-Mentoring Programme was launched in March 2005 and is coordinated by the Directorate General III of the Austrian Federal Chancellery in cooperation with fellow staff developers of the other Federal Ministries and the Parliamentary Administration. This personnel development tool allows participating Civil Service staff to take stock of where they stand in order to further progress towards a specific career objective to be defined as part of the programme. The programme’s defining feature consists in managers (i.e. mentors) supporting their colleagues from other Ministries (i.e. their mentees) in achieving their particular goal. The mentors share their own know-how and experience, give tips on career planning, and facilitate entry to professional networks. In addition to working on developing their careers in tandem with their mentors, mentees have the additional opportunity to network across Ministry boundaries, for example during workshops and networking meetings. The Cross-Mentoring scheme is constantly being evaluated and improved in order to meet the needs of mentors and mentees as much as possible.
Keywords:
mentoring, career development, women leadership
Dates:
Jan. 1, 2015 - None
Source Specificity:
Initiative/Practice/Project/Programme/Case Studies
Website:
https://www.pwnvienna.net/about-us/what-we-offer/172-mentoring.html
Power Domains:
Political
Methods Tools:
Competence development, Awareness-raising, Monitoring, Networking
Country:
AT
City:
Bochum
Implementation Scale:
national
Language:
English
Other Links:
https://eligo.de/en/2021/11/cross-mentoring-and-potential-analyses/
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