*Join - Identify the main reasons you would like to find a mentor in your professional and personal life, such as advancing in your career, combining work and motherhood, working better with different personality types, and more. Then send in your reservation!
*Build - Each event listed offers various training and relationship building with fellow program participants. Mark your calendars now for these valuable and effective events to make the most of the first part of this program. After the "Me" Cocktail Party, mentees will submit their top choices for mentors, and matches will be made. The relationships you build during the event portion will not just give you a great year of mentoring, but possible long-lasting relationships with any of the women.
*Learn - Following the Ladies Links & Spa Day, all mentor/mentee pairs will review and sign a contract outlining the upcoming year's goals and means in which they will personally meet them. The Partnership is here to assist during this time, but each pair will be responsible for both the process they choose and the fulfillment of that process.
The 2008 program year is limited to 20 mentors and 40 mentees!
Relationship Building E v e n t s :
Training Days:
January 14, 2008 ~ 4:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Buffalo Niagara Partnership Knox Room, 665 Main Street
This training sessions will give each group a more in-depth idea of the mentor/mentee relationship, and assure that they best understand how to maximize the program's potential.
DiSC Training:
February 12, 2008 8:00 - 12:00 p.m.
Location: Holiday Inn, Grand Island
All participants will take a DiSC Personal Profile. The morning will begin with a continental breakfast and networking, then an introduction of all participants. Next is a DiSC Personal Profile System Assessment by Lori Miller of Developing Professionals, which will teach participants how to utilize their results fully, in the program andin life.
Speed-Mentoring Cocktail Receptions:
March 6, 2008 ~ 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Buffalo Niagara Partnership Knox Room, 665 Main Street
The "speed-mentoring" event, with cocktails and hors d'oeuvres, allows mentees and mentors to have one-on-one conversations to get to know one another and find appropriate matches. A favorite since the program's inception!
Training Breakfasts:
April 8, 2008 ~ 8:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Buffalo Niagara Partnership Knox Room, 665 Main Street
Financial planning for the changes in life: marriage, divorce, upsizing, downsizing, retirement
April 22, 2008 ~ 8:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Buffalo Niagara Partnership Knox Room, 665 Main Street
Health & Wellness Training for all ages
"Me" Cocktail Party:
May 22, 2008 ~ 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Buffalo Niagara Partnership Knox Room, 665 Main Street
Mentors and Mentees will have one last chance to meet in this less structured format, a prty designed for the "me" in you.
Ladies Links & Spa Alumnae Day:
June 20, 2008 ~ 12:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Peek'n Peak Resort
The famous golf and spa day at Peek'n Peak Resort, also offered to all alumnae of the program. Start with lunch, choose an afternoon of golfing, golf lessions, manicure, tennis or use of the pool facilities. At 6:00, all guest come together for dinner in the gazebo.
Woman-to-Woman Peer Mentoring
