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WEST Mentor Interest Survey
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Outline of the program
The WEST Mentoring Program aims to help mentees achieve a personal or career goal by enabling dynamic non-traditional groups to provide perspectives from multiple mentors and peers, so that focused actions are developed and implemented.
Description
In order to provide an empowering and enriching experience, discussion topics will be solicited from mentees on a per-meeting basis. This flexibility will enable mentees to evolve their topic selections as they progress through the program. Mentees will also be allowed to suggest specific topics of their own interest. In this way, the program seeks to be responsive to mentee needs.
In the pilot program there will be 1 kickoff meeting on 9/29 (with training information, goal setting exercise, 1 sample pod session); 3 meetings on 10/13, 10/27, and 11/10 (networking and 2 pod sessions, total time per meeting is 2 hours). Total time commitment: 8 hours over 4 meetings 9/29, 10/13, 10/27 and 11/10 plus prep time for each meeting. Additional details can be found here - https://www.westorg.org/2020-mentoring-program
The dynamic “pod” structure will have mentors who address questions in two topics per evening, with 1-3 mentees who rotate to 2 different breakout rooms of their choice per session. If demand for a topic is great, a mentor may be called on to address one topic with 2 different cohorts of mentees in a given evening. Mentors will know ahead of the event what topics they will cover.
Mentee cohorts will change as they move to different tables. In this way, mentees will be able to receive input from multiple mentors and multiple mentee peers over the course of the program.