E-Mentor Corps is a project of the US State Department that will allow entrepreneurs seeking advice to access mentors on-line. [1] The E-Mentor Corps will call on business leaders and proven entrepreneurs in the United States and overseas to serve as E-Mentors to aspiring and emerging entrepreneurs around the world. [2]
E-Mentor Corps is sponsored by leading organisations such as Intel and Ernst & Young. [3]
E-Mentors will commit to provide guidance, insights and support to mentees for at least several hours per month for at least 3 months - via e-mail, telephone, video conference and other means of communication. It is hoped that many of these connections will spawn longer-term collaborations. [4]
The Department of State will encourage mentors and mentees to connect through any number of channels and mechanisms. To facilitate connection, the Department of State has partnered with three platforms which will serve as options for mentor and mentee connection: ImagineNations Group (imagine-network.org), Ning and LinkedIn. [5]
Mentorship is the patronage, influence, guidance, or direction given by a mentor. A mentor is someone who teaches or gives help and advice to a less experienced and often younger person. In an organizational setting, a mentor influences the personal and professional growth of a mentee. Most traditional mentorships involve having senior employees mentor more junior employees, but mentors do not necessarily have to be more senior than the people they mentor. What matters is that mentors have experience that others can learn from.
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This article incorporates public domain material from "Fact Sheet E-Mentor Corps". U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets . United States Department of State.