[Ubuntu Leadership] Leadership Mentorng Program

[Benjamin Kerensa]

I agree face to face is not only important for mentoring but also for
contributors who work in teams in general. I currently mentor a dozen
contributors in Mozilla distributed across the globe some staff and some
community. But I probably see my mentees a few times a year in person
whether I travel to them or they travel to me.

One thing we use to fill the gap is communication and mentoring tooling we
have an entire dashboard that helps mentors track mentees activity to make
sure they are successful in their contributions. Here is a screenshot of
that dashboard http://i.imgur.com/ihcbkTQ.png

Also open source and forkable ^ :)

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 9:25 PM, Ian Weisser <ian at korinthianviolins.com>
wrote:

> On Thu Nov 27 16:56:30 UTC 2014, belkinsa wrote:
>
> > A co-op with the CC and LC, for community and LoCo leaders, new and
> > old who want to improve their leadership skills.  Mentors and their
> > students should be paired based on timezone and language if it's not
> > English.
> >
> > When I pair, I don't mean one to one but more in terms of a soft
> > limit of two students to one mentor.  A mentor have more if they can
> > handle it.  Since the program is based on timezone and language,
> > mentors can have more than one but to a point without the mentor
> > stressing out.
>
> A couple things about mentoring.
>
> It's _really_ hard to do by e-mail or IRC or phone or other distance
> means. A good mentorship is based on several levels of trust, and is
> best done in person.
>
> I know a mentor who drives 400 miles a couple times each year to spend
> one day with one of his mentees. The in-person communication is that
> important.
>
> Being able to exchange jokes, to see how the mentee interacts with
> others, to talk to them privately and unguarded is critical. Otherwise,
> how can you help them see behaviors, or blind spots, or lead them to
> question assumptions, or give appropriate advice?
>
> So we can call what we want to do 'mentoring', and it's a lot better
> than doing nothing at all. But if you ever get a chance to do _real_
> mentoring, grab it. It's very rewarding.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ian
>
>
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