Mentoring in Action – Admin & Tips

Introduction to the HerBusiness Mentoring System

Administration  

There are 5 key administration tasks to be completed: scheduling, preparing, note-taking, invoicing, reporting.

1. Scheduling  — The first Mentoring Session between you and a new Mentoree will be scheduled by the HerBusiness office.
2. Preparing — Preparing for the first session:  Ahead of your first session you will receive relevant documents and a link to a recording of the Diagnostic Session conducted with the Mentoree.  It will make your first session significantly more productive and useful if you listen to the Diagnostic session and read over these documents.In addition, be prepared to talk through the Code of Conduct and the expectations you have of each other, determine any constraints on your interaction and how you’ll handle those.

   Preparing for subsequent sessions:

   Re-read notes from the prior session, consider appropriate goals to set for the next session, check out the Tool Kit, identify relevant HerBusiness resources to recommend, any limits or constraints and how you’ll handle those, challenges being faced and what each can do to prevent or manage these.

3. Note-taking 
   • Word file – we recommend you keep a specific file on each Mentoree that you work with.
   • Take thorough notes each session – it will help you enormously in preparing for the next session
   • Review for next session
4. Invoicing — Send your invoice to accounts@herbusiness.com on the final business day of the calendar month for all sessions completed for that month.HerBusiness pays all invoices on the first Friday of the month for the previous month.
5. Reporting and rescheduling — At the end of your mentoring session please promptly complete HerBusiness Form to confirm session has been completed, report any issues and nominate next session.

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