If you're looking for a mentor, and you're just not sure about how this all works – this should be for you. In a casual, informal introductory call, a mentor will introduce themselves, show you around the platform, explain how our mentorships work and explain how they would set up a mentorship with you.

This session is perfect if you're looking for a long-term mentor, but you're just not sure how this can work – or if you already set eyes on a specific mentor, and want to get to know them beforehand.

We hope the readers enjoy playing with the mentorship workflow as much as the authors enjoyed creating it!

We believe in infinite active learning growth mindset philosophy of Motivate, Educate and Grow. Awareness to best practices will lead to better career choices which will ultimately lands the mentee to make better Decisions ( Awareness > Choices > Decisions )

Reading blogs and watching courses fall into the passive learning category. You are consuming the knowledge, but most of the time that new info just sits in your brain and is then forgotten.

By speaking things through with someone else, it reinforces the topic and you are way more likely to follow through and actually implement it after a conversation.

REMEMBER: Every case is individual and deserves personalized advice from a Trusted Suslence Mentor!

• Direct access to schedule 1:1 calls with highly - skilled, vetted Suslence trustworthy mentors
• Comprehensive mentorship assessments and feedback reports
• Calls with mentors listed as per the schedule
• Ability to post help requests and have mentors apply to you
• Ongoing support from Suslence Admin with mentor suggestions

Once you sign up you can filter mentors bytheir areas of expertise to find the perfect match for you OR post a help request with your issue and they apply to help.

We have an in-app scheduling system that you’ll use to request the session and once they approve it, you meet via Zoom, Skype or Hangouts.

Mentors are supportive individuals who build relationships with young people by offering them guidance, support, and encouragement to help cultivate positive and healthy development – many of the same things you do. Mentors are not meant to replace parents, guardians, or teachers, or to play the role of disciplinarians or decision makers. Rather, they become part of a team of caring adults to that young person. Mentors can help encourage positive choices, promote high self-esteem, support academic achievement and introduce new ideas. 

Before becoming a mentor, here are a few things to understand about the role of mentoring. Most of us have had a teacher, supervisor, or coach who has been a mentor to us and made a positive difference in our lives. Those people wore many hats, acting as delegators, role models, cheerleaders, policy enforcers, advocates, and friends. Mentors assume these different roles during the course of a relationship, and share some basic qualities:

• A sincere desire to be involved with a young person
• Respect for young people
• Active listening skills
• Empathy
• Ability to see solutions and opportunities
• Flexibility

As their mentor, young professionals and students will likely look to you to help them manage this crisis, and find some sense of meaning in the midst of all of the chaos. Students will need you to lead with empathy, and prioritize understanding the complexities and limitations of their learning environment. The current context is not a time to prioritize student accountability. It’s best to give them the benefit of the doubt, and assume, like you, they are doing the best with what they have. Systemic and growing inequity manifests as gaps in opportunity, networks, and access to adult relationships outside of families.

Mentoring unites us. It is a key response to these issues. At a time when research shows that loneliness and isolation are trending upwards, we know that relationships are powerful tools. They bring us together, navigate us to greater connection and opportunity.

Mentor-mentee engagement has mostly been unorganized, informal, and largely through personal contacts or referrals and possibly available to only a few handfuls. This brings us to the conclusion that a huge chunk of the individuals who do not have such kind of referral facility is left out, from receiving expert guidance.

Potential is equally distributed; the opportunity is not. A major driver of healthy development and opportunity is who you know and who’s in your corner, the biggest King Skill after Communication is Networking with the right mentors. 5 years ago, Suslence Research was created to expand that opportunity for young people by building a youth mentoring field and movement, serving as the expert and go-to resource on quality mentoring. The result — a more than 100x increase in young people in structured mentoring relationships, from hundreds of thousands to millions.

Today, we activate a movement across sectors that are diverse and broad and seeps into every aspect of daily life. We are connecting and fueling opportunities for young people everywhere they are from schools to workplaces and beyond.

One study estimates that the human potential lost as a result of the educational achievement gap is the economic equivalent of a permanent national recession. By preparing young people for college and careers, mentoring helps develop the future workplace talent pipeline.

Mentors can also prepare their mentees for professional careers and assist with their workplace skills by:

• Helping set career goals and taking the steps to realize them.
• Using personal contacts to help young people network with industry professionals, find internships, and locate possible jobs.
• Introduce young people to resources and organizations they may not be familiar with.
• Skills for seeking a job, interviewing for a job, and keeping a job.

The number of ways mentoring can help a young person are as varied as the people involved in each program. While the lists and statistics can be impressive, personal stories can be even more impressive.

Below are some things a mentor might help a young person with:

• Setting academic and/or career goals and taking steps to achieve them
• Making healthy choices in everyday life: nutrition, exercise, social activities, and beyond
• Thinking through a problem at college or professional life

The sessions that get you where you want to be.

Step up your career game plan, prep up interviews, job search & promotion. Your mentor will listen to you, give solutions drawn from their experience and take you where you want to be.

Mentor-mentee engagement has mostly been unorganized, informal and largely through personal contacts or referrals and possibly available to only a few handfuls. Which brings us to the conclusion that a huge chunk of the individuals who do not have such kind of referral facility are left out, from receiving expert guidance.

Potential is equally distributed; opportunity is not. A major driver of healthy development and opportunity is who you know and who’s in your corner, the biggest King Skill after Communication is Networking with the right mentors. 5 years ago, Suslence Research was created to expand that opportunity for young people by building a youth mentoring field and movement, serving as the expert and go-to resource on quality mentoring. The result — a more than 100x increase in young people in structured mentoring relationships, from hundreds of thousands to millions.

Today, we activate a movement across sectors that is diverse and broad and seeps into every aspect of daily life. We are connecting and fueling opportunity for young people everywhere they are from schools to workplaces and beyond.

Defining a ‘Mentor’ can easily said to be one of the most difficult tasks! Who is a mentor? A trusted friend? A guide?  A well-wisher? Or an advisor? it can be said that a mentor is someone who is all of the above and more! The roots of the word MENTOR lie in the 3000-year-old Greek poem ‘Odyssey’ where Odysseus entrusts his young son Telemachus to the care of his old friend and trustee ‘Mentor’ while leaving for the Trojan war. During Odyssey’s stay abroad, Mentor guides and nurtures the boy.

While mentorship as we know it today, was recognized by researchers in 1970s, there is still a dearth of structured process and framework, that can discuss the mentor-mentee dynamics.  With the current mentorship framework offered by Suslence Research, we have tried to simplify the dos and don’ts of the mentoring process while also elaborating upon the procedure of ‘how to do it?’  During the course of building this program, the creators researched and delved into the topic of mentorship and found that it would be helpful to create a guide for both parties in order for them to grasp the purpose of each’s role and ‘what is expected of them?’

The mentorship program at Suslence Research starts with a sample mentor-mentee agreement, which can help lay some ground rules and decide what is expected of each party. Moving ahead it provides a checklist for the upkeep of the mentoring process where the mentor as well as the mentee can easily measure their progress during the course. Tips and pointers have been provided for smooth flow of relationship. A competencies’ assessment in the end can help the mentee assess herself with the intention for gaining clarity as to what all areas are of her interest and also help a mentor decide where to lay emphasis on.

The mentorship framework can be of help to all the parties who are looking forward for a practical guide that can explain the concept of mentorship and how this process works. The easy to understand and easy to use tools given in the end help give the process a structure. Going by the saying ‘what can’t be measured can’t be managed’ there are assessments provided to measure the relationship therefore avoiding pointless resource wastage, bringing only the best to the table