<div>I realise this is not the best mailing list for this conversation, but, I figure the recipients on here might find this interesting. The Business Constituency has shared how they onboard their incoming 'senior leaders' (what we would perhaps call 'newcomers' or 'mentees'), and I think there could be some best practices here which we could borrow. I quite like the idea of escorting people for badging, being formally introduced to relevant stakeholders, and having dinner together. Now, this would not scale for us, but at least for NCUC fellows (and the NPOC equivalent), these practices might be something we want to consider institutionalising. <br></div><div><br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block"><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user"><div>Best wishes, Ayden <br></div></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-proton protonmail_signature_block-empty"><br></div></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="protonmail_quote" type="cite"><div>-------- Original Message --------<br></div><div>Subject: Re: [ICANN60_Onboarding] Mentorship Guideline<br></div><div>Local Time: 10 November 2017 12:38 PM<br></div><div>UTC Time: 10 November 2017 12:38<br></div><div>From: marilynscade@hotmail.com<br></div><div>To: Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond <ocl@gih.com>, Ayden Férdeline <ayden@ferdeline.com>, Rapid SUN <sun.rapid@niptict.edu.kh><br></div><div>ICANN60_Onboarding@icann.org <ICANN60_Onboarding@icann.org><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><p>I'll discuss guidelines within the BC and with my two mentees. However, I want to mention that in the BC, we also have our own 'coaching' of the senior leadership invitees to each of the ICANN meetings. This is possibly more like what Rapid Sun is suggesting. <br></p><p><br></p><p>For example, for each of the ICANN meetings when the BC has invited one or two senior leaders, working with the BC Secretariat, I do at least one one hour coaching call when the attendee(s) are invited. Our wonderous BC Secretariat explains the BC website,
our processes for engagement, etc. and I focus on demystifying ICANN. [and demystifying the BC, of course -- who are our officers, our members, key issues re governance of ICANN and of gTLD policy]. <br></p><p><br></p><p>For their attendance at ICANN, we have a sort of triage approach: here are the important BC and CSG meetings, and here are a few more sessions that you may be interested in -- depending on where they come from --e.g. for our executives from Africa, I propose
the African Strategy session, for our recent attendee from Egypt, we attended the MENA strategy session, for our LATEM senior executives, we propose the Latin American Strategy session. We add in of course the public forums and other events that are relevant
to their interest. Just an other example, as two of our recent BC executives are quite sophisticated on financial issues, we proposed that they attend the budget working groups [with those of the BC who are already engaged]. <br></p><p><br></p><p>When they arrive at ICANN, we try to have them co located at a hotel with one of the officers, typically the Vice Chair of Finance and Operations, who is the key contact for this program. They are greeted, and sometimes, if appropriate, we have a small tea/coffee,
or dinner with 2-3 of the BC Outreach Committee members. One of the Outreach Committee offers to escort them to registration for badging. And we introduce them to Board members, GAC members, other leaders from the community throughout the week. <br></p><p><br></p><p>We have recently been using the ICANN Information booth as the place to convene during coffee breaks, and that is working very well as we want our executives to become quickly independent but know that someone from the BC outreach committee are there to
advise and introduce. <br></p><p><br></p><p>This is above and beyond our on boarding of newcomers, but it will be reflected in our final documents as we want to do much of this for any newcomer who is qualified to become a BC member. <br></p><p><br></p><p>Probably the BC will have mentorship guidelines, including time commitments, historical expertise, reputational standing in the community, and attendance records for any commitments at ICANN, as we are after all businesses. I do not suggest any such criteria
for any other group, as Ayden notes and Olivier reinforces, each group is quite unique. <br></p><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>