Mentorship Program
As many of you know, BDPros emphasizes connecting people across businesses, industries, the city, and the world. On a more intimate scale, we believe strongly in fostering mentoring relationships to help further our members’ growth and strengthen their businesses.
Note, we are limiting the program to members only.
VISION, MISSION, & PURPOSE STATEMENTS
VISION – Where do we want to go?
BDPros Mentorship Program positively impacts our members’ professional development to support their personal and professional growth.
MISSION – How will we get there?
We’re currently assessing interest for a potential relaunch in 2025. Please fill out our interest form to let us know if you’re interested in participating.
PURPOSE – Why do we do what we do?
BDPros recognizes that like-minded people benefit from each other’s experiences. This is a fantastic way to build a relationship with another person in Business Development, continue to grow your sphere of influence, and learn or transfer lessons to one another.
MENTOR ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
A mentor would be a senior-level professional who can offer their expertise and guidance to another professional through advice, skills, development, and networking.
- Share experiences and expertise as appropriate
- Introduce Mentee to rest of BDPros (if applicable)
- Provide support, guidance, and feedback confidentially
- Share knowledge about developing a career path
- Help to define expectations/outcomes
- Assist in developing goals and an action plan
- Suggest ways to respond to difficult situations
- Help mentee develop contacts and identify resources
MENTEE ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
A Mentee is someone looking to advance in their career through regular mentorship, learning and practicing new skills/advice gained from their Mentor.
- Own the mentoring relationship
- Manage meeting schedule with Mentor
- Determine objectives: skills, knowledge, and/or goals that you want to achieve and communicate them to your mentor
- Bring up new topics that are important to you at any point and give feedback to your mentor
- Develop goals and action plan with Mentor
- Maintain confidentiality in interactions
PROGRAM GUIDELINES & EXPECTATIONS
- The formal program will last 6 months
- Both Mentors and Mentees sign up
- Two 30 minutes meetings per month – or one hour meeting/per month recommended
- Each group identifies 3 goals
- Each group has a 30-day check-in to ensure a good fit
- Mentee creates an agenda before each meeting
- All conversations are 100% confidential and respectful
- Each group should look to identify best practices that can be shared with the rest of the group
- Each member will complete a survey after the 6 months is complete
MENTOR/MENTEE SIGN-UP FORM
To indicate your interest in participating, please sign-up and complete the registration form no later than December 15th 2024.
Please login and then click on the button below. If you’re not a member yet, you can also find membership registration on our website.
We’ll notify you by the beginning of January whether we’re launching the 2025 BDPros Mentorship program.