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MyGenius is a community that supports individuals in business, recognises their genius, opens opportunities for them, helps fine tune their strategy and helps individual business owners take their businesses to new levels.
The MyGenius online community and offline processes challenge members to imagine new possibilities, supports members in the struggle to find new heights and celebrates with members when victories are achieved.
This proposition is delivered through a website which enables networking in local and global communities and through offline meetings of MyGenius members. MyGenius is owned by MyGenius Networks Ltd., based in the United Kingdom.
At the core of the MyGenius offer to individual business owners is the business coach, facilitating gatherings of MyGenius members, in two formats. Firstly, in a Venturer Group meeting, up to fifteen members meet to network, build their online brands, build their private networks and take their marketing to new levels. Secondly, in Genius Strategy Groups, six members meet with a business coach to fine tune their strategy, support each other’s projects, develop bigger goals and account to each other on performance.
| The MyGenius online and offline proposition is designed to respond to the following global trends: |
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The massive growth of the individual business owner market; |
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The surge in the growth of broadband internet; |
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The well-known need that individual business owners struggle on their own, would benefit from fresh views on their challenges, need to network productively, would benefit from collaboration and need clarity on their strategy.
Women in Finance want to both deepen their relationship with existing paid members and substantially grow their paid membership base.
MyGenius would like to offer a simple basis for achieving both by offering Women in Finance their own MyGenius community, with access to all the functionality for its own organisational purposes.
www.mygenius.com
| SHAPING YOUR BEST SELF WORKSHOP |
The purpose of this personal development plan is to provide the first preparatory step for the Women in Finance Mentorship Programme.
This one day workshop will lay a foundation to allow people to assess themselves and their career in depth, and come up with focussed goals, both personal and professional, that will have a business spin-off.
These findings will provide a starting benchmark and criteria list to focus on during the Mentorship Programme
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Individuals who wish to take their career to the next level or seek overall growth.
The design caters for the “whole you” on the basis that people who have harmony between the personal and the professional bring their best selves to the work place, achieving a healthy work life-balance.
Input - is about who you are and what has shaped your life so far? What informs your beliefs? You may have various sources of feedback. We encourage participants to do pre-work if possible and reflect who they are through an exercise called Reflected Best Self: play to your strengths.
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| Throughput |
is a process tool (Your Best Year yet) which methodically assist you to review your last year, in terms of your achievements or goals. In this process, you identify the major roles you play in your life and what values underpin your choices. Attached to your various roles are goals which the tool assists you to plan how to fulfill those goals in the future.
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| Output |
It is the action plan to achieve the goals. It is made up of the three parts indicated previously: the daily practice, the relationship focus and what formal learning might support your progress.
In the last part of the workshop the participant produces a practical activity plan with three components: |
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Practice: what will I do differently on a daily basis to make progress towards my goals? |
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Relationship: identify relationships with people internal or external with whom to engage pro-actively as part of the plan to fulfill individual goals. |
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Formal learning: finding a course that will assist in achieving goals, which is extremely useful and should be done, but only if it is complemented with practice and relationship activities. |
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Benefits:
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Ownership and accountability
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Supports interventions |
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Integration of professional and personal goals
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Sponsored by Standard Bank – Leadership Development Coaching and Mentoring Unit
Apply to join the mentorship programme - Click here
| MENTOR & MENTEE DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP |
The mentoring training is designed for both mentors and mentees and focuses on how to have a purposeful conversation and sharing skills.
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Mentoring allows the opportunity for 100% customised and relevant development to occur for anyone.
It fast tracks career development and is a valuable tool to share experiences and grow individuals.
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Anyone who wants to grow their career or develop themselves will benefit from mentoring. Mentors also receive meaningful benefits from growing their knowledge and skills, as well as enjoying the experience of the contribution. Mentoring in mentee driven, it is an opportunity to further develop strengths and remove limitations.
The Mentoring program is a combination of international best practise and local input, feedback and innovation. Informal mentoring has and will continue to be an important development tool. The formal program introduces a full day of experiential training to develop the core skills of mentoring as well as to provide a model for mentoring that can be used by both mentors and mentees.
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Induction |
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Skills transfer |
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Sponsorship & guidance |
These differing types support a host of mentoring opportunities. For example a mentor is typically considered to be a senior manager in the organisation; however a program that includes skills transfer mentors would allow anyone of any age or seniority to learn niche skills from mentors. For instance a senior manager may benefit from being mentored by a young technology guru or high quality public speaker.
Mentors will be surprised how much insight and learning they gain from the process.
Complete your application to take part in the Women in Finance – Mentorship Programme Module 2 – Mentorship Empowerment Workshop
(Prerequisite is to have completed Module 1 – Shape Your Best Self
Sponsored by Standard Bank
| ADVISOR SPECIALIST FORUMS |
Further Information To Follow Shortly
Women in Finance will be collaborating with coaching specialists from the community to further support the Mentorship Programme as well as offering specific coaching services in the future.
The COMENSA (Coaches and Mentors of SA) Definition of Coaching:
“Coaching is a professional, collaborative and outcomes-driven method of learning that seeks to develop an individual and raise self-awareness so that he or she might achieve specific goals and perform at a more effective level.”
| THE MENTORSHIP PROGRAMME SUMMARISED |
"Great and miraculous things happen when people come together with an intention to create hope and opportunity."
Oprah Winfrey
Women in Finance offers a level of training, networking, mentoring and support that enables our members to actualise their own potential.
Everyone can Mentor and everyone can benefit from having a Mentor for their specific development needs. So we encourage participation on all levels.
“What value can you offer, and what value do you need..?”
The Process…
- Application – Mentorship Programme
- Self Awareness – Shaping Your Best Self Workshop
- Skills – Mentorship Development Workshop
- Connecting to Match - Mentee to Mentor
- Contracting & The Mentorship Roll Out
- Evaluation
"You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream, you've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself."
Diana Ross
| BECOME INVOLVED |
| apply to join the Women In Finance Mentorship Programme as a Mentor or a Mentee |
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| To apply to join the Women In Finance Coaching Programme as a Coach |
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| Interested contributors can become involved in our programme |
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| For all entrepreneurially spirited people seeking a challenging and successful organization, Women in Finance invites you to get and stay in touch with us to find out what’s happening and to be involved. |
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