Taking a Slack community of 400+ to new heights
Tracy Bongiorno
Program Coordinator
Tech Leading Ladies
Program Coordinator
Tech Leading Ladies
Women in tech need mentorship - receiving it and giving it. Mentorloop makes it both easy and affordable.
Only our community members who were confident enough to post in our over 400-person Slack workspace would be able to find help or guidance from other community members.
We wanted to find a way to help our community find mentors and mentees without the fear of asking for help into the void and hoping for a response.
Our mentoring program through Mentorloop gives our community a safe place to find someone ready and willing to mentor them.
Through Mentorloop, our community has been able to offer mentoring to over 50 participants, fostering over 35 mentoring relationships.
Reading through our sentiment responses shows just how many women and non-binary people are benefiting from the TLL mentoring program.
It’s wonderful to be confident in knowing our mentoring program has helped our participants in their careers.Â
When the time is right for us, we would love to expand the program to be able to offer mentoring to even more people in our community.
Program Coordinator, Tech Leading Ladies
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Mentorloop effortlessly connects our Tech Leading Ladies members as mentors and mentees, fostering meaningful relationships to support our goal of bridging the gender gap in technical leadership.
The value our participants gain from these mentorships is immeasurable—building confidence, honing skills, and paving the way for successful careers.
– Tracy Bongiorno, Tech Leading Ladies
What Role Does Equity and Equality Play in Your Mentoring Program?
The right mentoring program should level the playing field to empower entire cohorts of people: workplaces, member associations, social groups and educational institutions. Equality should be a cherished value so that every individual can thrive—whoever they are, whatever their background, however they worship or whomever they love. But we can’t arrive at equality without it’s often forgotten partner, equity.
What does a Mentoring Program Coordinator do?
Being a Mentoring Program Coordinator is an incredibly rewarding experience that positively impacts the lives of many. And while mentoring programs don’t fully run themselves (even though Mentorloop can do a great deal of the heavy lifting!), they do require a point of contact that can steer the program in the right direction for the organisation that is running one.
Building Quality Feedback Into Mentoring Relationships
This is Part 8 of our 10-part series on the 10 Key Qualities and Habits of a Highly Effective Mentor.
In this post, we’ll look at how mentors can successfully build quality feedback into their mentoring. Quality feedback is priceless because it clarifies expectations, helps people learn from their mistakes, and builds confidence. It also allows mentees to more effectively take what their mentors say and turn it into action.