WOMEN BUILDING AUSTRALIA’S BUSINESS RESILIENCE MENTORING ON DEMAND

Women Building Australia’s Business Resilience initiative provides business operator training and has just launched mentoring on demand. These programs are crucial to developing successful female-led businesses in the building and construction industry.

The Women Building Australia Mentoring On Demand program provides a self-matching, on-demand mentoring experience, allowing mentees to seek assistance for a specific acute business issue they are facing. The mentee can search out a suitable mentor and receive practical advice and guidance from experienced industry practitioners.

Program Benefits:

For mentees, the program provides a safe and confidential space to explore issues and concerns in a supportive relationship, receive experienced guidance and support, learn from the real-life experience of other construction business owners, explore business options and tactics to solve their acute business issue, receive feedback and developmental guidance, and network and connect with other experienced industry practitioners.

For mentors, the program provides an opportunity to contribute back to the industry and help to build robust building businesses, enrich their mentoring and leadership skillset, gain intellectual challenge and new perspectives, exercise emotional intelligence, network and connect with other industry practitioners, and help shape the women in the construction business community.

To be eligible to join as a mentee, individuals must be female, leading and/or running a small to medium building and construction business, an owner/ operator or in a senior/management role and running the business side of the operation, either on or off the tools.

To join as a mentor, individuals must have at least 10 years of industry experience, be female or male, an owner/operator or in a senior/management role in the industry and have experience running a building business or currently employed in a management or supervisory role in the building and construction industry.

Each mentoring relationship lasts a maximum of three months, during which the mentee outlines the specific acute business issue they are facing, and the mentor provides advice and guidance based on their own experience to help the mentee solve the issue.

For more information, or to apply to the Mentoring On Demand program, visit www. womenbuildingaustralia.com.au/business-resiliencementoring-on-demand