Nurturing Talent

In 2024 the association agreed to collaborate with ChurchGOers Digital encouraging Church Role Models to become Mentors in any one of our affiliated organisations. This collaboratioon should provide a community partnership yielding ca consistent mentoring pipeline to professional organisations

The joint initiative aims to:

Recruit and Train Volunteers: Source and train volunteers from ChurchGOers Digital Initiative and other relevant sources to join the mentoring pool.
Match Mentors and Mentees: Pair volunteers with students based on their skills and availability.
Provide Support Services: Offer resources, training, and support to mentees, mentors and their organisations.
Foster Community Engagement: Promote mentoring opportunities and build relationships with local organisations and schools.

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Youth Mentors

Claro & Perelmiter, (2021) examined the effects of mentoring programs on the emotional well-being of school-aged children. They found that for children, success in school requires more than reading, writing, and arithmetic. Thus, mentoring may be one approach to developing the necessary protective factors that can lead to greater success.

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Group Mentoring

Group mentoring is a combination of group facilitation and peer mentoring with the mentor(s) contributing as facilitators for the group dynamics, helping the mentees share and learn providing input based on the mentor's own experience e.g. through storytelling, providing information, giving feedback etc.

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Mentoring Our Men

Our youth are easily impressionable and representation helps them to expand their mindset and see that they can achieve anything they want in life. The ultimate black male mentor, former President Barack Obama is a perfect example – because of Obama, millions of black boys across the globe know that they have the potential to be fearless and respected political leaders in this country.

This places a significant importance on mentors, particularly for underserved youth. A mentor is a trusted counselor or guide who provides support in various aspects of the mentee’s development, whether academic or professional. Most importantly, a mentor is someone who emulates and personifies all that our youth aspire to be. For many, a mentor is integral to reaching their goals and their character development. In a position of such influence to the mentee and their community, choosing the right mentor for underserved youth is critical.

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Mentoring Our Women

Organizational benefits include improved recruitment and induction, better staff planning, and increased communication. Society at large benefits from maximized human capacity, strengthened networks, and increased continuity as older and younger persons contribute to the workplace and community (Schulz, 1995).

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Career Mentors

Engaging in mentoring relationships, mentees can increase their employability, competence, motivation, and communication skills. Mentoring also brings benefits to the organization for which mentor/mentee work in terms of organizational change, effectiveness, retention, organizational learning (Yirci & Kocabas, 2010).

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Business Mentors

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Cultural Mentors

Being able to connect with BAME/People of Colour Professionals who can share advice on how to survive and thrive not just at work. Provide tips and lessons learned. Mental Health and Well-being are important - sharing tips too.

Connecting with someone from the same culture who can provide them with support and guidance as they navigate their way through the often difficult and complicated world of work. Especially if the mentee is the "only one" in their company or in the area where they work.

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Financial Mentors

A financial mentor is a trusted guide or counselor that helps a person in the arena of business, personal finance and investments. Mentors can be many different people, but they typically have several characteristics in common. They are all loyal advisers who have the person’s best interests at heart.

Mentoring is most widely used in business. Other settings that use it include medical fields and educational settings. Business experts will tell you that among the most useful, helpful, and valuable career assets that you can have in your business career is a helpful and experienced mentor.

Financial mentors are commonly older individuals who have more wisdom and experience to share with the individual than he or she already possesses. Though they do not have to be older in every single case, they must always have more experience than the person whom they are mentoring. These mentors both guide financial development and assist the person with their overall financial and business goals. They do not engage in this process with the expressed intent of making money or benefiting financially from the arrangement usually.

With financial mentors, you as the person being mentored have some preparation that you can do. You should listen carefully to the mentor and what he or she has to tell you. This is most easily accomplished by coming to the meeting with the financial mentor with some sort of recording means prepared. This might be a voice recorder, PDA, laptop, or even pen and paper. If a mentor made specific recommendations in the prior discussions, then you should have both noted and tried to apply them. Be ready to review any steps that you have taken specifically with the mentor.

You should also allow a mentor to be a part of your big picture goals and plans, and not only the particular details. The overall goals for you who are being mentored should be set together, in conjunction with the mentor. They should talk not only about present challenges and difficulties, but also concentrate on long term and short term goals together.

Good financial mentors will also do more than simply hold official meetings. They will take the time to get to know you. This does not have to be extensive amounts of time, but it should be quality time spent. This might involve a fifteen minute friendly chat over coffee or a quick bite to eat out some night. The key is not to take up too much of the financial mentor’s time until you get to know him or her better. Then as the relationship broadens out into a friendship, more opportunities to get together will naturally arise.

Financial mentors can help out with many areas of your life. They can make helpful suggestions for getting out of debt. They can guide you with good concepts for practical and smart investing. They can share personal, actual experience for navigating through difficulties with a business that you own. They might suggest advice to assist you in your career development.

https://www.investment2020.org.uk/our-employers/black-leaders-mentoring/

Mentoring - Role Models

Yes, it’s true – even Oprah had a mentor! Of Maya Angelou, Mrs. Winfrey said, ‘She was there for me always, guiding me through some of the most important years of my life. Mentors are important, and I don’t think anybody makes it in the world without some form of mentorship.’

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Spiritual Mentors

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1-to-1 Mentors

Michelle Robinson (better known now as Michelle Obama), was designated as Barack’s mentor at the law firm which they both worked at while he was a summer associate. Barack often credits Michelle today as being the support and success behind his great achievements.

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Health, Fitness & Wellbeing

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Leadership Coach

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Life Coach

A life coach is a type of wellness professional who helps people make progress in their lives in order to attain greater fulfillment. Life coaches assist their clients in improving their relationships, careers, and day-to-day lives.

Life coaches can help you clarify your goals, identify the obstacles holding you back, and then come up with strategies for overcoming each obstacle. In creating these strategies, life coaches target your unique skills and gifts. By helping you to make the most of your strengths, life coaches provide the support you need to achieve long-lasting change.

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