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Is it Better to Mentor or Sponsor Someone at Work Who DOESN’T Look Like You?
Is it better to mentor or sponsor someone at work who doesn’t look like you?
Until Wednesday’s What’s Your Work Fit? live show with guest, future of work expert Lauren Pasquarella Daley, PhD, I may not have had an answer to that question.
But when Lauren pointed out quite convincingly that women career professionals are typically over mentored and under sponsored for advancement, I had my answer.
According to Seramount, “a sponsor is an advocate — [they are] the person who can and will use their influence and leadership status to advocate for your advancement. A sponsor will spend their relationship capital on you, support you as they connect you to career opportunities, and put their reputation behind you.”
On the live show we talk about how to make that sponsorship happen.
Scaffolding the advancement, starting with small successes and then building to more responsibility helps hiring managers and others prove to their management that their investment in people that don’t look like them makes business sense.
