MENTORING: POWER OF 2

Mentoring: Power of 2 is available to all current members of the Minnesota Chapter of MPI. This program matches volunteer mentors from the local chapter with mentees for a three-month commitment. Mentoring is available to members at any stage in their career who are seeking to develop new skills or make progress toward professional goals. The program is intended for career development, and strictly prohibits participants from marketing or soliciting for business reasons.

Mentoring pairs meet or connect approximately two to four times per month to establish the mentee’s goals and a process for achieving them. Volunteer mentors are listed on the MPI MN website, and interested mentees can seek pairings up to three times per year, during the mentor program’s enrollment period (usually September, January, April).

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MENTOR GUIDELINES

• All individuals interested in becoming a mentor must fill out a Volunteer Mentor Application Form.
• It is the mentor’s responsibility to inform the leadership committee when he/she pairs with a mentee. Please contact Devie Hagen to report a mentor/mentee pairing.
• The mentor and mentee agree to meet two to four times per month for three months. It is the responsibility of the mentee to initiate contact with a mentor. Each meeting should last approximately one hour and can be an in-person or a telephone meeting. The three-month commitment starts from the first mentor/mentee meeting.
  » Download mentee worksheet
  » Download evaluation form
• Mentors and mentees are expected to keep all commitments to each other while participating in the program.
• If the mentor and mentee meet for a meal or coffee, each person is expected to pay for his/her own meal.
• At the end of three months, the mentor and mentee should submit a short report to the Leadership Development Committee recapping the results. Please submit the recap report to Devie Hagen.
• A mentor can remove his/her profile from the MPI MN Web site at any time by contacting Devie Hagen.

MENTEE GUIDELINES

• Mentees can review mentor profiles on the MPI MN Web site prior to making their selection.
• Mentees should think about what they wish to accomplish during the program before they contact a mentor (see point 3). This should include what the mentee hopes to learn, his or her goals, idea of meeting frequency, etc.
• A mentee initiates contact by calling the mentor he/she is interested in. Should you need any help, please feel free to contact Devie Hagen for matching. Please download an initial meeting worksheet to help facilitate this first conversation with your potential mentor.
• The mentor and mentee agree to meet two to four times per month for three months. East meeting should last approximately one hour and can be an in-person or a telephone meeting. The three-month commitment starts from the first mentor/mentee meeting.
• Mentors and mentees are expected to keep all commitments.
• If the mentor and mentee meet for a meal or coffee, each person is expected to pay for his/her own meal.
• At the end of three months, the mentor and mentee should submit a short report to the Leadership Development Committee recapping the results. Please submit the recap report to Devie Hagen.

RESOURCES

• Mentor/mentee roles and responsibilities
• Mentor/mentee guidelines
• Partnership ground rules worksheet
• Mentoring partnership agreement form
• Session journal worksheet
• Progress evaluation form
• The Mentor Influence (an article by Amanda Fretheim Gates from MN-MEETINGS.COM, Fall 2009)

CURRENT MENTOR/MENTEE PAIRINGS

AVAILABLE MENTORS

The following mentors are available to take on a mentee. Click on each name to read that mentor’s application. When you find a mentor that you’d like to work with, give him/her a call to set up an initial mentoring interview. See the mentor’s guidelines to learn more.

• Dianna Fuller, CMP, CMM, HelmsBriscoe
• Kathleen Haase, CMP, Boston Scientific
• Daphne J. Meyers, CMM, Red Barn Group
• Joan Rausch, Minnesota Chamber of Commerce
• Jason Rudoy, metroConnections
• Tracey B. Smith, CMP, CMM, Garrett Speakers International, Inc.
• Joette Zembal, CMP, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans