Mentorship Project

Aspects of Mentoring

What follows is an outline of how I propose to approach this project. To date I have nearly completed a draft of points 1 & 2 and will share that with you shortly. This is definitely a work in progress.

1.Mentoring the Mentor

- Assigning Mentors

- Briefing Mentors re the process to be followed

- Staying in touch and supporting Mentors through the process

2.Mentoring the prospective member on the obligations of membership

- Monetary issues (dues and meeting costs)

- Attendance requirements

- Service obligations

- Completion of Application & Interest Form (current form needs to be reviewed and edited)

3.Mentoring after Induction

- This section still needs to be fleshed out – to start with I will try and list Club, District and RI info that a new member should be made aware of in some kind of logical order.

- Will also rationalize what kind of information is best suited to group mentoring as opposed to one on one mentoring

- I want to have a look at the Mentoring handbook and the tasks that we currently require and completely rewrite that section based on the work that we do over the next little while

- Finally I think we need to put some kind of a time line on the process of mentoring a new member. Perhaps we also need to have some kind of a recognition process when the orientation is complete and the new member has graduated, so to speak.

I think you are on the right

I think you are on the right track Ed. All good points.

Mentoring the Mentor: I

Mentoring the Mentor: I like the systematic progression from a Mentoring Chairperson through to the Mentor. Will the mentor be the Sponsor? If not, I hope the chosen Mentor will feel confident to mentor. The 3 obligations of membership listed in your document should make mentoring much easier and straight forward.

Mentors will need the same kind of support/document to help them with mentoring the new member after induction.