Mentoring/Formal

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General details about the Mentoring program, resources, and Informal Mentoring alternatives, can be found on the Mentoring page.

Formal Mentoring is a one-on-one interaction between a Mentee and Mentor with specific objectives of increasing skill, editor level, and Waze Community participation. With a specific Mentee-Mentor pair, agreed upon objective, start, and end, this process needs a bit more coordination. It also requires commitment from both the Mentee and Mentor to complete the objective. Mentoring could last a week to months - the Mentee and Mentor decide.

Formal Mentoring is conducted by a Waze-approved group of Mentors. If you wish to become a Mentor or Mentee,

• First; Decide if Formal Mentoring is right for you.
  • Look at the Formal mentoring guidelines to see what is entailed, and if you still want to be a Formal Mentor or Mentee.
• Then please see the information specific to your country to apply.

Details

• A controlled one-on-one interaction geared to educate a mentee on particular Waze editing skills.
• Must come to a formal agreement to start the mentorship, after careful selection of partners.
• Only Waze can approve formal mentors.
• Provided education is more predictable and controlled with high certainty for a positive outcome.
• Goal oriented: intended to improve a particular mentee skill, not a particular feature on the map.
• Repeated interaction, in a defined range of time on a specific range of topics, to improve a particular skill.
• Helps ensure quality map edits over time as editors advance in rank.
• Expectation is to upgrade the mentee skills, allowing the mentee to rise in rank or at least close the gap toward a rise in rank. At mentor discretion, mentee may receive a (temporary) rank change to facilitate the mentorship.

Supporting countries

Formal mentoring is only available in some countries, under the direction of a local or global Waze Champ responsible for mentoring in that region.

The following countries have implemented this program. For details of how it works in your country, and whether it has been implemented there yet, find your country in the list below.

• USA
• Philippines
• Brazil
• Costa Rica
• France

Formal Mentoring Managers

Those editors responsible for managing, developing, and growing the Formal Mentoring program are listed here. Contact them if you have ideas, issues, or questions about the program.

• OrbitC (PM [Help])  
• VectorSpace (PM [Help])  

Some additional information and discussion are held in the Formal Mentoring Forum

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