iMantri is an online mentoring platform venue for finding and interacting with mentors and a platform that facilitates the mentoring process.
 
iMantri’s structured mentoring process is facilitated by a framework and a set of tools for planning, interaction, feedback, and ratings. The members will have a choice to follow an unstructured and ad-hoc mentoring process. While the application allows for subject experts and professional mentors to offer their services, it is built to unlock the peer-to-peer mentoring potential.
 
There is enough evidence that mentoring works and makes a positive impact on participants in particular and the eco system in general. In corporations mentoring programs have shown to reduce attrition rates, boost employee morale, foster diversity and enhance career progression. In society, mentoring programs such as Big Brothers and Big Sisters have proven their efficacy in preventing youth from pursuing an errant path and in helping provide a positive role model.
 
iMantri encapsulates the peer-to-peer paradigm of the emergent business social networking space and aims to foster mentoring connections between members who can be mentors and mentees at the same time. More than a listing of a mentoring classifieds, iMantri provides a framework for mentoring as well as tools to facilitate the process.

iMantri applies the best of both mentoring and social networking to create a non-hierarchical mentoring relationship based on individual expertise. This means that mentors and mentees can both give and receive advice and acquire new skills based on their areas of knowledge and goals.
 
“Mantri” (pronounced as “Man” “Three”) is a Sanskrit word and means a minister, wise man, a counselor, a trusted advisor and a mentor. In addition to Sanskrit, the word has similar meaning and connotation in other languages such as Malay, Indo-China, and Arabic cultures.

iMantri’s core features include:

* Competency Assessment: Users will be able to assess their competencies and generate a mentoring needs analysis which pinpoints areas of strength and weakness

* Goals/Issues based Mentoring: While competencies are building blocks, some of the users who want to focus on a specific goal or resolve a specific issue can find content, context, resources and mentors based on their area of interest

* Mentor-Mentee Matching Engine: Users will be able to search for a mentor or a mentee and be intelligently matched with the right people

* Mentoring Framework and Tools: Mentors will be able to define needs in detail, create a mentoring process and implement it using tools for planning, interactions, feedback, and rating

* Mentoring Resources: Individual users will be provided contextual resources such as books, articles, news and related products and services that they can use in their mentoring process

Join iMantri to find mentors who can help you achieve your goals and objectives and/or mentor others who might tap into your wisdom and expertise. Either way it is intellectually rewarding and life enriching experience.

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iMantri is a peer-to-peer social network for mentoring and coaching. The site facilitates connections between mentors and mentees and also provides a framework and tools for fostering mentoring relationships online. iMantri is founded by veterans in the field of management and technology and with a strong advisory board of experts from the coaching, mentoring, training and leadership development worlds. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley. Visit iMantri at: www.imantri.com

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Mentoring is a relationship that is established with someone who is an expert in their field. The mentor is usually older and more experienced than the mentee. The mentor shares their experiences, and the lessons they have learned. But the relationship benefits both the mentor and the mentee. The mentor benefits from the opportunity to strengthen their leadership skills. The mentee receives career guidance and helpful career advice to prepare for the next level in their career.

Many companies have formal mentoring programs in place for matching new employees with those already established in their career. If you are choosing your own mentors here are five tips to ensure a successful relationship:

1. A good career mentor:

- Is knowledgeable in their field
- Is generous and honest with advice
- Is a good communicator
- Is committed to the relationship
- Will get to know their mentee: her/his capabilities, interests and goals
- Will make recommendations for the mentee’s career development and path
- Will create learning opportunities and heighten the mentee’s career
- Will introduce the mentee to key people and professional organizations

2. Choosing a career mentor:

- Choose someone you admire
- Look outside your immediate work area – maybe your boss’s boss.
- Choose someone in another area of your organization who has had a career path similar to your goal.
- Find multiple mentors (I have clients working with more than one mentor in a formal relationship).

To find a career mentor outside of your organization, join professional associations where you can meet senior people and executives in your field.

3. Setting up the Mentor/Mentee Relationship:

- Before seeking a mentor’s assistance, make a plan. What do you expect from your mentor? What do you want to focus on? How much time do want to commit to this relationship? It is important for you to be clear about your expectations for your own benefit and in order to communicate this to your potential mentor.

- Invite the potential mentor to lunch or coffee to discuss your intention. Mentors appreciate the recognition, and are willing to share their knowledge and wisdom.

- At the meeting, effectively communicate your need for a mentor, your vision of the future. Define the relationship and why you would like this person to be your career mentor.

- Find out how involved the potential mentor wants to be in this relationship.

- Give them a chance to think about it – tell them you will get back to them in a couple of days.

4. The Relationship:

- Set up the parameters of the relationship together, how often, when & where you will meet, and the length of the meeting.

- Respect your mentor’s time. Show up on time for your meetings. If you have to cancel your meeting, give at least 24 hours notice.

- Set up boundaries for phone calls. Between meetings call only if absolutely necessary.

- Use your scheduled meetings effectively by organizing your materials and the topics you would like to discuss.

- Pay for your own meals and drinks or offer to pick up the tab for your mentor’s meal.

- If you are given an assignment, complete it on time.

- Show your appreciation by offering to help your mentor in any way possible. Send a thank-you e-mail communicating how this relationship has helped you or send a gift to recognize a special day for your mentor.

- Recognize when the relationship is winding down, communicate this, and wrap it up. If you would like to stay in touch with occasional updates of your career successes, clear it with your mentor at the end of the relationship.

- Obtain approval from your mentor before using them as a reference.

There are many benefits to a career mentorship, for both parties. Mentees gain the benefit of someone’s experience to help them navigate their career development. Mentors have the opportunity to reflect on their careers. Having clear goals and communicating these will ensure that the experience is positive and productive.

Copyright 2007, Cecile Peterkin.

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At the end of the last century, there was a popular song that exclaimed our children are our future. It was a powerful song with a powerful message. Once we’ve finished our adult life and get ready to settle into our retirement years, they will be the ones to take over. We need to teach them the best that we can, including how to be a good leader. We seem to have forgotten that message evidenced by increasingly disturbing news reports about the young in our country and even by some of the behavior seen when in public places. We need to refocus and remember how to create a successful youth so that they can enjoy the success of their adulthood and pass their knowledge on to the next generation.

In order to create a successful youth in our society, it is a good idea to build a strong character. Mentorship programs are outstanding ways to involve young people in learning about education, business and community. A mentor acts as a leader to show the younger generation how to be a leader instead of a follower. It only takes one person with a genuine interest and commitment in a young person in order to change the course of his or her life for the better.

Mentors are the ultimate teacher. Through encouragement and ideas, they can teach our youth to overcome fear and tackle even difficult tasks. They may even be able to help a young person overcome fear to discover an unexpected passion. If they try at something and fail, overcoming the fear of failing again is essential to becoming successful. Mentors have the power to encourage and shape even the most resistant young person because ultimately, everyone wants to succeed.

If a young person is able to participate in a business entrepreneurship program, it can teach them outstanding lessons about team work, the value of money and pride in earning money. Children are born with a curious nature and business is a common interest of many kids. Lemonade stands, mowing services and even shoveling snow in the winter are all ways young people explore and experiment with business. The same curiosity is there as they grow older, but the right opportunity and mentor can turn the curiosity for any young person into a bright and promising future.

When the youth of our society falls or fails, there isn’t always someone there to help them learn from their mistakes or encourage them to continue trying. Everyone needs someone in their corner, guiding and teaching them while helping to build character. Having a mentor provides our youth with this much needed cheerleader of sorts for both the good times and the rough times. Successful mentoring often teaches our youth a healthy feeling of gratitude as well.

Finally, taking a young person under your wing and never giving up can make them understand the concept of setting goals and sticking to them. Having goals can lead to a healthy drive for reaching those goals. Reaching those goals provides an unmatched sense of accomplishment. The entire process can help complete the mold of a young person who is well-rounded with a strong character.

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Creative writing is a finely honed skill. We can temper it and study it until we are blue in the face, and we still will not have plummeted its depths. That is what makes it so fascinating.

Many creative writers attend the public educational system to sharpen their prose and poetry skills, and this author certainly applauds all who make such a grand effort. However, the question becomes, is it necessary to invest multiplied thousands of dollars on colleges the average person cannot afford. Is the same thing available for less money? The answer is yes.

The pioneers of yesteryear provided a mentoring system for their children because they understood the need for education and progression. Indeed, many of America’s leaders who were instrumental in forming this great nation were tutored at home. Those who dare to challenge the mentoring system should keep this in mind.

·Abraham Lincoln attended school only a few months

·George Washington had the equivalent of an elementary school education

·Davy Crockett, who was elected to the State Legislature, had almost no formal education

·The eloquent diplomat, statesman and scientist, Benjamin Franklin, quit school at the age of ten and

·Thomas Edison, the father of 1,093 patented inventions, only briefly attended school.

As you can see, one’s skills are not limited by a mentored education. In fact, today’s populace is so disconcerted with traditional education that over one million disgruntled families now mentor their children at home.

We might ask the question: Do parents qualify as mentors? Indeed, some parents are even high school dropouts. Even so, the National Home Education Research Institute reports mentored children outscore their public school counterparts by 30%. As more and more people realize the advantages of private tutoring, the number of home mentored children continues to grow.

Perhaps the real question is, what qualifies a person to teach? According to the dictionary, teaching is “imparting knowledge of or skill in; giving instructions”. By definition, mentors would certainly qualify as bonafide teachers.

The traditional system finally sees the need for salvaging children who have fallen between the cracks. They are providing a new system for these children. And who is doing the teaching? Mentors. Is this a silent confession that holding every student equal to a given goal is ridiculous?

Here’s what the mentoring system can offer you:

·Instead of being assigned a number like a prisoner in cell bock D, your mentor will know you on a first name basis

·Your mentor will be available daily to answer your questions and guide you through the mire of journalistic rules.

·You compete only with yourself as the mentor escorts you from your present level to your individual highest potential

·The mentoring system is available at nearly half the price you would expect to pay in the traditional system.

·You will be certified in the courses you take

* Educational patterns and rules vary from school to school.

Indeed, the mentoring system is at least equal to traditional teaching. In some cases, it even surpasses it.

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“If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.”  Joseph Campbell

The hero’s journey comes from the structure of ancient and modern mythology. In ancient times, as well as today, myths inform us about the mysterious and unknown aspects of life. In the hero’s journey, there are stages: ordinary life, the call to adventure, refusal of the call, meeting mentors and allies, saying yes to the call, tests, inner searching, big challenges, rewards, completing the journey and returning to the world a changed person.

As youth grow and prepare for life, they can begin their own hero’s journey. At times, society pressures for conformity (don’t worry about liking your job, find a job that can support you financially, and forget about your crazy dreams). In contrast, the hero’s journey is an adventure that will lead youth to finding who they are and what they love. What better way to approach life.

Our society has failed many of our out-of-school youth. According to the National Center for Education Statistics at the U.S. Department of Education, each year since 1985, 4 million young people aged 16-24 are not enrolled in or failed to complete high school. We owe them more. I think we have the opportunity to take a giant leap by providing a passageway and opportunities for them to travel the hero’s journey. This journey will lead them to a fulfilling career by providing time for them to discover their passion and helping them prepare for a career that has meaning for them. As Joseph Campbell says, if you follow your bliss you put yourself on a track that leads you to your passion.

We can begin by creating an environment of hope for youth as they begin their hero’s journey. Listen to them. Be there as they develop and explore their dreams. Endorse their dreams. Support them. Love their dreams and let them know you do. It is their dreams that will propel them forward. Help them to build their strength to withstand disappointments and challenges. Nurture the idea that each of them is on a hero’s journey that will be a wonderful adventure. Their adventure will includes good times and difficult times. Many of these youth have withstood greater challenges and have survived.

As youth embark on their hero’s journey, experiences can fuel their travels. One of the best gifts you can give youth is a sense of curiosity. For youth to find their destiny and have a fulfilling life, they need to know what’s out there. And they need the opportunity to try things out. They need space to explore. I’m not suggesting that a brief internship or visiting workplaces is going to do it. It’s more than that. Let’s give youth time to find their passion. In our world, many adults have never embarked on the journey to find their passion. That, I believe, is a major source of their lack of fulfillment in life. Let’s make the time and space for exploration available for youth. How would your life have been different if the time and space had been given to you?

A key stage of the Hero’s Journey is “The Call to Adventure.” That is what we should create for youth  a positive challenge, a chance to find out who they are and what they want to do, a means to engage them in life and inspire them to their individual greatness. We all deserve a fulfilling life. Let’s take a giant leap with youth and give them the opportunity to walk the hero’s journey. Let’s call them to adventure. I imagine an exploration space, a walk where they have never gone, supported by mentors and allies along the way. How rich it could be!

This essay only begins to look at the stages of the hero’s journey. There is so much more to explore. Let’s use the hero’s journey as a framework to develop a new perspective for supporting out-of-school youth.

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The high demand for wealthy mentors is stirring up controversy around the blogosphere. Yet millions of young people seeking professional connections and personal guidance are warming to the notion of mutually beneficial relationships.

Sugar daddies are most often generalized as wealthy benefactors who provide financial support to young and attractive individuals. Yet ‘mentor daddies’ are becoming a popular alternative for those interested in sharing less than a marriage but more than a bank account.

“Mentor daddies have less in common with Donald Trump and more in common with Dr. Phil” says Brandon Wade, creator and CEO of a popular mentor daddy dating website. While mentor daddies do provide financial support to their mentee’s, their relationships tend to have an emphasis on personal growth and professional advancement.

Overall, mentor daddy profiles are less flamboyant than their sugar daddy counterparts. Understated and uncommonly up-front, mentor daddies advertise their desire to provide all-encompassing support within a pre-defined and often discreet relationship.

Mentor daddies wear many different suites. Included in the mentor daddy pool are corporate executives, wealthy retirees, and successful entrepreneurs. Many mentor daddies are married or in existing relationships, thus creating the need for discreet involvement with possible mentees.

Though relatively smaller in number, “mentor mamas” are also seeking arrangements with mentees. Mentor mamas are of particular interest to young men who desire a nurturing female influence, similar to that of a mother.

Correspondingly, the pool of mentees is equally diverse. “Most of them are students. There are a lot of actors, models, and entry level professionals who are creating accounts” says Brandon Wade. Spanning all sexual preferences and orientations, there’s a type for every personal taste.

For many upwardly mobile mentees, the benefit of having a mentor daddy is alluring. Having already established themselves in their respective industries, mentor daddies have an abundance of insider knowledge and connections to draw from. It is this kind of hands-on experience that makes mentor daddies irresistible to mentees in a ‘who you know’ kind of world.

To participate in mentor dating, you may signup for a free account on any high end dating website focused on Mentor dating, or Sugar Daddy dating.

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Stephan Smith is a leading relationship expert who studies the economics of relationships. He coined the term investment dating to define a new approach to dating by today’s wealthy individuals and those who dream of achieving a lifestyle of millionaires, the rich and famous through love, romance and marriage.