DECISION 2 –
Mentoring
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In Part II – Programme Design, your organisation will have made a decision about the amount of support your organisation is able or willing to provide for the Champions (intensive vs minimum support). In order to design this support element of the project, we will guide you through the different support options, such as mentoring.
Mentoring could look very different for each organisation, depending on the type of projects and your Champions' needs. As an organisation, it is important to consider the following:
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What are the benefits of adding a mentoring element to the seed grant project?
Who is the ideal mentor?
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Once you have decided as an organisation, in consultation with the Champions, how the potential mentoring element will look like, you should start thinking about the person who will actually be their mentor.
WW recommends finding mentors who can become a role model for the Champions and who can create a natural connection with them. This person should be flexible, understanding and empathetic. In order to create a mentoring approach that provides mutual learning, it is also important that the mentors and Champions have shared their expectations with each other beforehand. If your organisation has access to a group of peer leaders or girls who have gone through leadership training or similar projects like this, you might consider having this group be the mentors of your Champions. By having this peer-to-peer approach, girls create a support system among themselves.
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Process
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Case Study
MADE TO PLAY (NIKE X GURLS TALK)
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The beauty of this type of programme is actually leaving a lot of it to [the grant recipients]. So we do provide guidance and structure with some of our templates and the extra training was super important to all of them... but I think the greatest success of the programme was really them taking ownership of their programme and seeing it through until the end.
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For me and sometimes for them, we didn't need to catch up, but we had to catch up, because it was part of the programme; they didn't really have much of an update. Maybe it could have been interesting to, each quarter or every two months, have a different topic that we focused on in our mentoring calls, for example a specific skill.
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I think having a clearer understanding of what are our common goals, so that it feels more successful and to map a route to the end. If there is no real concrete step on how to give closure or how to continue, then it doesn’t really feel it sticks. Maybe half way through the programme, we could have introduced more formally the sustainability component of their programme.
(Mentor, Women Win)
