Timeline And Resource Guide For Mentors

TIMELINE AND RESOURCE GUIDE FOR MENTORS Hello mentors! Welcome to the Walsworth Yearbooks Adviser Mentor Program. Thank you both new and returning mentors for being willing to share your expertise with a first- or second year adviser. You will be making a huge difference in helping your mentee have the best year possible. You remember what it was like getting started on that journey to completing your first book. All the hundreds of things you didn’t know and, more importantly, how isolated you felt at times not knowing where you could turn for advice. Your rep was always there for you, but sometimes you needed to ask questions that only a fellow classroom teacher could answer. Now you will be paying it forward to a new adviser by being a resource for them. We know how busy you are with your own staff and your own book, so our expectations of you as a mentor are very easy to meet. At the beginning of the month, I will send you an email, the Mentor Minute, reminding you it’s time to contact your mentor that month. I will also give you suggestions about what you might include in your text or email. That’s it. If your mentee responds immediately, that’s great. But if they don’t, it doesn’t mean it’s an unsuccessful match. When I mentored two new advisers, they both responded in different ways. One would respond with a text regularly and the other only responded when he had a specific question. But they both shared how glad they were to know I was always available as a resource. This eBook will provide you a month-by-month resource timeline that you can reference. Pass insights on to your mentee as you see fit at least once a month. Maybe they will even help you as you plan and make your way through the year. -Jim Jordan

“ If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”

Isaac Newton

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