Life at work can be tough. No matter where you work or how much you love your job, there are times when you need someone to turn to for advice.
Zing recently implemented a new program to help us all deal with the highs and lows of working life. Remember your first day of school when you were allocated a buddy to show you the ropes? Well, we now have one of those at work.
We teamed up with our sister agency, Bang, and established a mentoring program that involves all of us. Everyone in the company has been allocated a mentor, someone who is more senior than they are and who can provide wisdom about all things career related. Your mentor either works at Zing or Bang and they can work in any of the divisions we have (PR, events and experiential, design or accounts).
We meet with our mentor once a month, somewhere outside of the office like the local café (or pub *ahem*), to chat about how our life at work is going. We don’t necessarily discuss our client work (we have our Account Directors to go to with client related issues), instead we talk about our working life.
My mentor is one of the girls on the events team here at Zing. Together, we are working towards improving a few key areas of my working world that I suggested a little tweaking.
She’s helping me learn skills to get me moving up the career ladder. We’re working on computer skills together – she’s teaching me how to give my Powerpoint presentations the professional touch. She is also helping me come up with different strategies to tackle problems and providing an understanding ear when I just need someone to talk to.
Not only am I feeling
more comfortable at work knowing there is someone there to approach with my
issues who’ll do her best to help me out, but I’ve also gained a friend out of
the program. And you can never have too many of those…
Kate is an Account Executive at Zing
Nice blog Kate.
Go Zing and Bang teams, what a great idea... We might do the same over here in the US!
keep us posted on how it goes!
Posted by: Penelope | May 23, 2009 at 03:16 AM