[NCSG-PC] Fw: Re: [ICANN60_Onboarding] Mentorship Guideline

[Poncelet Ileleji]

Thanks Ayden,

I do agree +1

On 10 November 2017 at 21:07, Ayden Férdeline <icann at ferdeline.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Best wishes, Ayden
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [ICANN60_Onboarding] Mentorship Guideline
> Local Time: 10 November 2017 12:38 PM
> UTC Time: 10 November 2017 12:38
> From: marilynscade at hotmail.com
> To: Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com>, Ayden Férdeline <
> ayden at ferdeline.com>, Rapid SUN <sun.rapid at niptict.edu.kh>
> ICANN60_Onboarding at icann.org <ICANN60_Onboarding at icann.org>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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].
>
>
> 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].
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
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