Timeline for 2025 Two-Way Mentoring – Sixth Cycle, supported by Puig

 

PLEASE NOTE APPLICATIONS FOR THE FIFTH CYCLE HAVE CLOSED

 

ABOUT CEW’S TWO-WAY MENTORING

Mentoring is a planned pairing of a more skilled or experienced person with a less experienced person. It involves active engagement, between the Mentor and the Mentee, helping to explore any issues or aims, and both short and long term objectives.

Mentors will provide direction and advice either within an organisation, or within an industry. They provide a neutral sounding board, and will draw on their expertise and experience to help the Mentee overcome obstacles, and think through problems. They can advise on career planning, and offer insight into business challenges using their own experiences.

Mentors support and question, helping the Mentee to develop a greater understanding not only of their business, but how to approach the many varied management stresses, that running a team of people, with all their quirks and needs, can present. Their knowledge and experience, can help short-cut the learning process, turbo-charging professional growth, offering the Mentee a real advantage in the workplace.

Whether it’s advice on giving feedback, working with tricky retailers, navigating internal politics, or preparing for a promotion interview, the advice of a Mentor is priceless.

 

Applicant criteria:

• Please note that we will not be able to process your application if you do not have a valid CEW UK membership. To become a CEW member, click the link here.

• Not all applicants are guaranteed a place on the programme.

• You must be able to commit fully to the timetable outlined below.

 

W/c 11th August:

The programme is open to members. Mentees fill in their top four Mentor choices on the form linked at the bottom of this page.

Please note that applications close at midnight on 12th September 2025, and there are 50 available places.

All selected mentees must attend the chemistry event on 12th November from 6 p.m. Please note that if a Mentor can not attend the chemistry session in person, a suitable alternative will be arranged, and all Mentees will be informed of the change before the chemistry session.

 

Friday, September 12th:

The programme closes for applications.

 

W/C October 20th:

Mentees are notified of their matches via email.

 

November 12th:        

The Chemistry session will be held at Puig HQ in Central London. Here, you will meet your suggested mentor, introduce yourself to each other, and start discussing the next steps. You will also have the chance to meet the other mentees in the programme and network.

 

W/ November 25th

NDAs to be signed.

 

January 6th 2025       

The programme starts for 6 months to the end of June 2026

 

Throughout the programme, CEW will regularly check in with both Mentors and Mentees to ensure the matches are working efficiently and to head off any problems.

 

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PROCESS YOUR APPLICATION IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A VALID CEW UK MEMBERSHIP.

 

APPLICATIONS ARE CLOSED

 

 

Applications open on Monday, 11th August, and close on Friday, 12th September.

If you have any questions, please contact [email protected]