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Mentoring

Femme Palette mentee Marta Batíková on her decision to pursue another degree after working full-time

Marta Batíková was a Femme Palette mentee, who just finished our Mentoring program. After working full time at Raiffeisenbank and Better Slack, she decided to pursue another master’s degree. In this spotlight interview, we asked Mariia about her decision to go back to university, what factors she considered when making this shift, what the biggest lessons she has learned from this experience and so much more. 
Rose Smith
August 13, 2023
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Announcing the winners of the 2023 Femme Palette Mentor Awards

We’re incredibly proud to announce the winners of our 2023 Mentor Awards! What we do at Femme Palette would never be possible without our amazing community of mentors that has grown over the years to include professionals from all different kinds of countries, backgrounds, with different fields of focus and career paths. We would like to take this opportunity to say a huge thanks to all of them!As it would be impossible to individually acknowledge each of our 1000+ mentors around the globe, we have selected 80 mentors in 6 categories who we would like to acknowledge for exceptional efforts and results. Meet the winners of the Femme Palette Mentor Awards 2023 below!
Femme Palette
August 13, 2023
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How Mentoring Helps Debunk the Myth of Female Workplace Rivalry

Workplace rivalry can appear in many circumstances, but one of the most commonly perceived dynamics is between women. You might feel like you sometimes need to compete with other women to achieve a particular position in your workplace, but that isn't true.Women need more representation in top positions in the workplace. You could gain experience and value from a mentorship where you work with other women than seeing them as your rivals for an opportunity.
Mia Barnes
August 13, 2023
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Femme Palette mentee Denisa Banikova on her journey towards becoming a manager

Denisa Baníková is a Femme Palette mentee, who is finishing her Mentoring program. Currently taking a 3-month break to travel, Denisa would like to return to her career refreshed and ready to enter the next chapter of her career. In this spotlight interview, we asked Denisa about her journey towards becoming a manager, how she effectively provides support to engage and motivate her team, and so much more.
Rose Smith
August 13, 2023
Mentoring

Helping managers grow their leadership skills: Employee mentoring at Tipsport

Tipsport approached us when the company wanted to try out a different approach to talent development and decided to enroll selected employees to the leadership and mentoring program. The company wanted to give its leaders who have been in their roles for several years an opportunity to learn 1:1 from external mentors. To the Leadership program participants, we also offered leadership-focused workshops to combine group learning with a personal approach. We talked to Irma Marić, L&D Specialist at Tipsport, about the impact mentoring has had on Tipsport employees and how it has helped them grow in their roles.
Femme Palette
August 13, 2023
Mentoring

Femme Palette mentee Mariia Naumovets on making a career switch

Mariia Naumovets was a Femme Palette mentee, who just finished our Mentoring program. She a Trainer for PisaSales CRM system and an ICF ACC Coach with a background in Cognitive Science and research.. In this spotlight interview, we asked Mariia about her journey towards becoming a trainer and a coach, how she made the switch from academia to a full-time job, what the biggest challenges she faced making the career pivot and so much more.
Femme Palette
August 13, 2023
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Personalized talent development in a scaleup: Employee mentoring at Mews

Establishing a company mentoring program is a wonderful way to give your employees an opportunity to grow in alignment with your business goals, while at the same time using a highly personalized approach to talent development. The finance team at Mews approached us when they wanted to offer their team members an opportunity to learn from external resources through mentoring to keep up with the company's high growth and new challenges.We talked more about how it all went and how mentoring has benefitted Mews with the company’s CFO, Pavla Munzarova.
Femme Palette
August 13, 2023
Mentoring

Mentoring in tech: Meet tech experts from our mentor community

Would you like to grow professionally in the field of tech by working with a mentor? Our tech mentors help their mentees explore all the possibilities the field of IT has to offer. They support their mentees in breaking through into the tech industry and grow their career. With a global mentor community from different backgrounds, our mentors have different experiences to share with their mentees making every mentoring experience unique. To give you a glimpse of our diverse mentor community, we introduce to you some of our mentors in the field of tech.
Femme Palette
August 13, 2023