Pollination Mentoring Program

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Pollination Mentoring Programme

Pollination - Planning S3

🌟Ambitions

🌱 Growth

Increase the capacity of pairs

Allow mentors to take more than one mentee

Setup network sessions

Review and improve the workshops

Give workshop about mentor & mentee relationship

✨ Acknowledgment

Mentors

Advertising them on SoMe as volunteers at Beela

Promote their work through the community

Allow them to share content between the mentees and/or community through the Hive Certificates

Mentees

Share profiles in SoMe to help job hunting

Build a CV base to share with partners

🚀 Success

Mentors

Track the cycle time

Build testimonial base

Provide network

Mentees

Track the cycle time

Build testimonial base

Evaluation S2

✔️ Doing Well

workshops

matches (mostly)

extended the program duration

outreach

reputation building

💡Learnings

We need more time between closing the application and choosing approvals

publicize more, and ask our community advertise too

Emphasis on the commitment needed to be in the program

we need to have the workshop dates defined beforehand

emphasis on the commitment to the program

open possibility to question beforehand is good to shape the content of workshops

maybe the time scheduled for workshops isn't good

not enough have feedback survey and be open to talk

✋ Do differently

Applications

Mentees: questions and answers instead of a cover letter (some past letters seemed to provide irrelevant information)

Focus on getting the info we need to create good mentor/mentee matches

Creating matchings that we are not so sure about about (happened in 2 cases in S2)

Kick-off

Provide clear expectations for mentor/mentee meetings (frequency, topic ideas)

Onboarding workshop should be provides by an external mentoring expert / trainer

Activities

Do not have the sessions/workshops defined beforehand

Industry-specific informal networking

Recording workshops (for people who are not able to attend live)

Follow up

Estabilish close relationship with the pairs

Better information sharing with mentors directly about what the mentees are covering with their workshops (ex. suggested follow-up topics)

Feedback

Make a follow-up after few months after the end of the program

🔥 Action points

Have a meet & greet with Alumnae

Provide workshop about how to be a mentor

Provide a workshop on how to full advantage of mentorship

Establish a close relationship with the pairs, making checks often

Bi-weekly sessions between the pairs

Mingle and network sessions for mentors

Set a pool to choose a new time schedule for workshops

Schedule survey/follow-up emails

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