Why mentors cannot help with your promotion?
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Research found that
- Successful Caucasian men receive more career guidance than women and multicultural professionals.
- More women have mentors than men, but fewer women win promotions.
Why? ==Mentors cannot help with promotions but sponsors can==.
What is a sponsor?
A sponsor is
- ==Investor and Beneficiary==. A sponsor is a senior level staff member invested in a protégé’s career success.
- ==Direct influencer of your promotion==. Sponsors promote protégés directly, using their influence and networks to connect them to high-profile assignments, people, pay increases and promotions.
- ==Resource-sharer==. Sponsors give protégés their active network connections and make new connections for them.
- ==Amplifier==. Sponsors champion their protégés visibility, often using their own platforms and reputation as a medium for exposure.
Who can be the sponsors?
- who makes pay, promotion or project assignment decisions that affect you/your employee?
- which senior leaders could benefit from you/your employee’s career advancement?
- which senior leader has a network or platform most equipped to help you/your employee advance in their career?