Working with, and supporting, your mentors is a big part of the PM role. Being able to apply the best practices in mentor management will help you to work with your mentors, especially since you will not meet your mentors in person until the first event.
Explore the documents below, which are all also linked to the Mentor-Specific Support Strategies page of the Digital Program Manual and begin to think about how you will get to know and set expectations with your mentors.
We also suggest you read It’s About Time, an article which explores recent research about how much time mentoring program staff, like PMs, need to spend interacting with mentors.
- What stands out to you from this article?
- What does it say about how to best engage with your mentors
Go Beyond Reading: Finding the Sweet Spot, an article that looks at the connection between the strength of pair relationships and the activities that pairs work on together.
- What stands out to you from this article?
- What does it make you think about our pair archetypes and how to best support your pairs in our program?
