{"id":974,"date":"2017-07-19T15:15:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T07:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/\/?page_id=974"},"modified":"2025-04-01T17:24:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T09:24:21","slug":"tips-for-overseas-mentors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/tips-for-overseas-mentors\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Offshore Mentors"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Tips for Offshore Mentors<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1019 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Overseas-mentor-banner-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1143\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Overseas-mentor-banner-1.jpg 1143w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Overseas-mentor-banner-1-300x105.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Overseas-mentor-banner-1-768x269.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Overseas-mentor-banner-1-1024x358.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Overseas-mentor-banner-1-260x91.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Overseas-mentor-banner-1-50x17.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Overseas-mentor-banner-1-150x52.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1143px) 100vw, 1143px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Many Offshore Mentors enjoy mentoring and supporting HKU mentees because the experience helps them staying connected to the Hong Kong community, members from Mainland China and other Asian countries. They have learnt from the process, and embraced new perspectives from some HKU exchange students.\u00a0 <strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As an<strong> Offshore Mentor, <\/strong>you are expected to: <strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">provide support to your mentee(s);<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">offer advice or information about the host country or city;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">keep in touch with your mentee(s) via emails, phone calls, social media, chat apps. Meetings are encouraged wherever possible;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">if schedules allow, arrange home or workplace visits, lunches or dinners together; visit local events or tourist attractions together; organise\/join outdoor activities or alumni events together. Mentors and mentees told us these are great ice-breakers and help build the relationship;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">share, discuss and even challenge your mentee(s) on issues such as cultural observations and societal viewpoints; answer questions from your mentee(s) as best you can or direct them to find the answer(s);<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">connect your mentee(s) with other alumni, friends or family, if appropriate; expand the mentee\u2019s network, which may in turn help their personal or future career\/professional development;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">provide feedback to Programme Facilitators via email or online feedback survey (after logging into the Mentorship Website Account), if needed, on the progress, your mentoring experience or anything the Facilitator should be aware of about the mentee(s); and<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">give permission to the Programme Facilitators to share snapshots of your mentorship moments on the Mentorship Website and Facebook page. Happiness is best when shared!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tips for Offshore Mentors Many Offshore Mentors enjoy mentoring and supporting HKU mentees because the experience helps them staying connected to the Hong Kong community, members from Mainland China and other Asian countries. They have learnt from the process, and embraced new perspectives from some HKU exchange students.\u00a0 As an<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-974","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5314,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/974\/revisions\/5314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}