Mentorship
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About the Green Mentor program
PLT Canada is proud to offer mentorship programs to support youth, including those facing additional barriers to employment, advance their green career pathways.
The Green Mentor program connects youth (ages 18-30) with Green Jobs professionals. It helps create a highly valuable relationship, where the mentee expands their forest and conservation knowledge, goals and network and the mentor fosters the next generation of leaders, shares advice and gains a new perspective.
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Our Green Mentor program matches people based on their personalities, goals, interests and more. This helps ensure that our mentor-mentee pairs build successful, productive and trusting relationships.
Mentorship is a mutually beneficial relationship: the mentee expands their forest and conservation knowledge, goals, and network, and the mentor fosters the next generation of leaders, shares advice, and gains a new perspective.
Together, pairs work on goals to challenge and help each other grow. And PLT Canada helps nurture the mentorship relationships with communication tips, networking advice and problem-solving tools.
We believe good mentorship programs are mentee-driven and mentor-guided. This short time commitment allows for flexibility and multiple mentorship opportunities a year.
Custom mentorship cohorts
PLT Canada hosts custom mentorship cohorts for external partners, such as internal cohorts, community action cohorts, and cohorts tied to events.
Learn more about the World Forestry Congress’s global mentorship cohort or the Green Leaders program, which involves mentorship, skill development, and community action.
Are you interested in learning more or creating a custom cohort? Reach out to Dominic.Weeks@forests.org for more information.
Why should you be a Green Mentee?
PLT Canada green mentees get the chance to build meaningful connections with professionals in the forest and conservation sector and learn more about Green Job opportunities.
- Build confidence. Learn new things and discover abilities you didn’t know you had.
- Network. Meet forest and conservation professionals who can help you overcome employment barriers.
- Develop green career pathways. Participate in short- and long-term goal setting exercises and gain insight on future job requirements.
- Increase your employability. Learn new technical skills and soft skills like time management, communication, problem solving and more.
- Have a say. Help keep the sector energized and moving in a positive direction with your new perspectives.
Why should you be a Green Mentor?
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“The Green Mentor program is one of the things that gives me hope about how the forest sector will grow in the future. We need more young people like [my mentee] to help move things forward. We also need young people to see what modern, sustainable forestry is all about so they can see themselves in a green career.”
“The Green Mentor program is one of the things that gives me hope about how the forest sector will grow in the future. We need more young people like [my mentee] to help move things forward. We also need young people to see what modern, sustainable forestry is all about so they can see themselves in a green career.”
Our mentors say that they have gained just as much as their mentee from their relationships. By committing 2-3 hours a month, you can make a difference in a young person’s career and help your sector.
- Foster your sector’s growth. Promote the benefits of forestry and conservation and attract innovative and skilled youth to your field.
- Share knowledge. Nurture a young person’s career development by sharing your wisdom, skills and experiences.
- Enhance your career growth. Practice leadership, communication and coaching skills that you can apply at work as well.
- Recruit employees. Gain free access to an impressive pool of eager candidates looking to enter the Green Jobs sector.
- Gain new perspectives. See your sector in new and exciting ways through a young person’s fresh outlook.
