Mentorship pathway
When a new applicant ask to be a Rep, a mentor is assigned to his/her, like is working right now.
- This Mentor helps the mentee understand Reps tasks
- Builds a mentor/coach relationship that helps mentee finds his/her path inside the program/Mozilla. This period have one year limit. Needs to be explicitly renewed after that time. That renovation includes an anonymous survey.
- If mentee decides to participate at Leadership track, mentor has to give his/her a specific content too (or the mentee could have a specific second mentor for that porpoise).
How to be a Mentor
Only people on Leadership track could be a Reps Mentor. They need to have a special training, based on current Mentor training.
After one year, mentee could ask to renew his/her mentor relationship with his/her mentor or ask for a specific one (regarding her track selection) or ask for another mentor.
Mentor/mentee needs to have, at least, a monthly call to update on news and projects.
Topics to cover on training (during first year)
Basic content
- How to listen?
- Having difficult conversations
- Empathy
- Different type of personalities
- OKRs
Leadership content
- How to manage groups?
- Conflict resolution
Every Rep has to pass to this content in his/her first year in the program.
Questions
- How to become a mentor? Should someone apply to be or we continue with manual selection?
- After the first year, should we need to continue mentor/mentee relationship? Or should be discuss another peer relationship method?
- What content/learning/skills needs a mentor?
- Should we create a space where mentors could share experiences? This idea could be a monthly meeting between 3-5 mentors to discuss what they learn, if they had some troubles, etc.
- Should we check mentor/mentee relationship during first year?