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Since 2006, Vital Voices has partnered annually with the U.S. State Department and FORTUNE Most Powerful Women’s Summit to provide international emerging women leaders in business the opportunity to develop their leadership, management and business skills through the FORTUNE/U.S. State Department Global Women’s Mentoring Partnership.

The program invests knowledge and resources in emerging women leaders and expose them to best practices in the United States public and private sectors. This program has had a tremendous impact on communities across the globe. Alumnae have returned home to achieve greater leadership positions in their businesses and to mentor more than 1,000 young women in their home countries

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There are few experiences more rewarding than teaching what you know to someone else. The mentor-protege relationship is perhaps the ultimate teaching experience: a one-on-one transfer of accumulated knowledge and wisdom designed to benefit both parties involved.

Proteges are a common occurrence in the business world today. Experienced people in every industry often decide to “adopt” a protege-whether the arrangement is through a formal mentoring program, or an informal mutual decision to take a new employee “under your wing” and show him the ropes. The reasons to enter into a mentor-protege relationship are many, but the most common is when the protege candidate shows promise from the start.

Mentor-protege relationships can be either formal or informal. Informal mentoring relationships often develop on their own, with the more experienced person offering advice and assistance and the newcomer taking that advice to heart. Many organizations have formal mentoring programs, which can be either within the company or within the industry. For example, the Small Business Administration runs a mentoring program where retired business executives dedicate their time to developing proteges.

College interns also figure into the equation. Though proteges are not always interns, the relationships are virtually the same, while the reasoning may be different. But whether you work with a protege or a college intern, becoming a mentor can be one of the most rewarding experiences of your professional life.

A Brief History of Mentoring

The actual origins of the mentoring process are unknown. However, the word “mentor” is derived from Homer’s Odyssey. The original “Mentor” was an older man who served as an advisor to the king. Unfortunately Mentor was rather ineffectual in his advice. However, the term in this context refers to the goddess Athena, who took on the form of Mentor to advise a younger man in the art of war.

There have been many famous mentor-protege pairs throughout history. One of the earliest and most well-known was Paul of Tarsus and Timothy, a first-century Christian bishop. Minister, activist, and Morehouse college president Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays served as a mentor to Martin Luther King, Jr.; and the poet Ezra Pound guided a fledgling T.S. Eliot through his literary career.

Most recently, the protege concept has been illustrated through billionaire Donald Trump’s reality television show The Apprentice, where young men and women compete for the opportunity to claim Trump as their business mentor. Learning a trade or an industry from someone with more experience has been a consistent occurrence throughout history, and it is still a viable and successful approach.

You don’t have to be Ezra Pound or Donald Trump to offer something worthwhile to a protege. If you’ve had experience in a business or industry, you can benefit someone new to your field and have the pleasure of watching a new talent unfold.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.—Mother Teresa

Phil de Fontenay
http://www.articlesbase.com/coaching-articles/mentoring-a-protege-a-rewarding-experience-63132.html

Every business owner starts a new business expecting to create a success story. Here are 5 more mistakes they frequently make that can keep it from turning out that way.

MISTAKE #1: Believing a single product, formula, or system is the direct path to million dollar results.

Distraction is the number one enemy of success! You’re bombarded daily by messages pushing this, that and the other thing as the golden ticket. Don’t be fooled. Excellence in everything you do is the direct path to million dollar results. Everything else is secondary. And excellence, like success, is something you are, not something you buy.

MISTAKE #2: Believing luck is the difference between an entrepreneur who is successful and one who isn’t.

There is no such thing as luck. There is only preparation meeting opportunity. Preparation requires discipline; opportunity requires observation and persistence. (Sometimes timing also plays a role.)

MISTAKE #3: Believing an online business requires little effort, skill, specialized knowledge, or time to achieve million dollar results.

If this were really true, there wouldn’t be a market for coaching of any kind in the online marketing world. And everyone would experience massive success instantly. That’s just not the way it works (despite what you’ve read)!

Everything you could possibly need or want to know about running a successful online business is available for free from the internet. But most people prefer (and benefit from) having someone in the know show them the way.

You can’t help but benefit from working with a mentor or business coach who tells you the truth about what it takes to build a solid business. Especially when they show you how to use proven strategies, tips and techniques to your competitive advantage.

If you are at all serious about building your successful business, be equally serious about finding a good mentor to help you create something you’ll be proud to own that serves you well over the long term.

MISTAKE #4: Believing an online business requires little more than outsourcing the work to cheap overseas labor to achieve million dollar results.

You can hire people to do the work for you and you can outsource many things; that part is true. But when you do, you must know how to properly define, set up and run projects and manage remote teams. You also need to know how to hire, evaluate and motivate team members and vendors. Time is money so efficiency and productivity are critical to making a profit.

Even if you decide to have a business where you do everything yourself, and especially if you have others working with and for you, you need to manage the work effectively and support it by developing efficient processes and reliable systems. These are learned skills, not inherited ones. And certainly, if you can’t manage your own productivity and effectiveness really well, it isn’t likely you’ll be able to manage others or serve as a role model for them.

A good mentor can help you determine the best methods, resources, management techniques, and time savers to use when it’s time to expand your team. You’ll be better able to figure out what you’ll need, when and how to get involved with others, and how to tell if you’re getting full value for your money spent with a vendor.

Nobody likes to waste money on work that has to be done over before it can be used because, if released as is, it will harm your professional and/or brand credibility and damage your reputation. And who has so much money to burn they can afford to pay for services that don’t add any value to the bottom line?

MISTAKE #5: Believing that working hard is the key to success.

Only 3% of people working hard ever experience success! And there are a lot of people working hard in that other 97% too.

More important than working hard is working productively, efficiently and effectively. Doing the right things, at the right time, in the right way. Don’t confuse being busy with being productive. Working the right way means with less effort and at less cost. You can do less and achieve more. It’s the real secret to experiencing less stress and more success.

No mentor or business coach can help you until you’ve reached the point where you know what you want and have given yourself permission to succeed. But, with the right guidance and a willingness to persist in working toward your goals, you’re virtually guaranteed to be in that 3% who experience success.

Linda M. Lopeke
http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-articles/5-more-common-mistakes-new-online-business-owners-make-and-how-to-avoid-them-664571.html

However, I don't think AC Milan is gonna change head coach. Ancelotti has been there for 7 years and has always been able to overcome odds.

But the best bet for getting a mentor is just go to a business owner in the business that you like and just ask them, trust me it works

The Islanders web site lists Anders Kallur (played for the Islanders for years), Rob Cowie (Played professional hockey until 2 years ago), Timothy MacLean (drafted Kelly Hrudey), Chris O'Sullivan (played for the Calgary Flames), Mario Saraceno (drafted Mike Bossy in 1977), and Jad Ramsey (Played College Hockey) as scouts……….and all of them are former hockey players - No interns there!

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- send LITY an email, he was a scout for 30+ years. I met hom at the world championships talking to Bob Gainey and Steve Yzerman, very thrilling for me.

LITY is short for the 'Like I'm Telling You Who I Am', the top answerer in this section

His email is on his profile.
He was a minor leaguer for the Black Hawks in the 50s and 60s and became a scout and stayed with them until the 90s. Now he works for the NHL