Once you have decided Formal Mentoring is right for you, after you have read the guidelines, and understand the commitment required of you, you can apply here.
Mentoring request
If you want to be a Mentee
- Be sure you have already read, understand, and accept the guidelines, and commitment required as outlined in the General Mentoring forum, and the USA specific Formal Mentoring forum. This is required to prevent false expectations, and frustration from both sides of this relationship.
- Please fill out this Formal Mentoring Application Form
- Do you want to pick your own mentor? If you don't know one, you can find one in the forum groups:
- Global Champ Mentors
- Local Champ Mentors
- Mentors
- If you're not sure, you will be matched with a potential Mentor.
- Do you want to pick your own mentor? If you don't know one, you can find one in the forum groups:
- Work with that Mentor to reach an agreement.
- If the Mentor is a match - Begin and complete mentoring.
- If the Mentor is not a match - Request assistance in terminating the mentorship as peacefully as possible; you may try again with a different Mentor.
Please keep in mind, the Formal Mentoring program is still in its infancy, and the number of Mentors is limited. Mentors will be provided based on availability, and the order the requests came in. This may result in a delay from when you apply, until you are assigned a mentor. This is to ensure each Mentee receives the full attention they deserve. When your turn, comes you will receive the same undivided attention as those who came before you.
If you want to be a Mentor
- Read and agree to the Formal mentor training
- Request to be granted the Mentor role (form under development, post in the forum for now)
After you receive sponsorship by a Waze Champ to be granted Mentor status.
- Suggest those to whom you'd like to Mentor.
- Survey the pool of Mentee requests and volunteer to help.
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Mentoring is a great way to learn from those with more experience or to pass down your experience to others, but the interaction usually ends up helping everyone and creating a better Waze community for all.
Overview
Mentoring is the process where a more experienced person (the mentor) imparts knowledge and skill to one who is less experienced (the protege, or in the terms of Waze Formal Mentoring programs, the mentee).
Typically a Mentor is much more experienced than a Mentee. In some cases a Mentor may have less general experience, but significant specialty knowledge in one or more topics. For instance, such a Mentor may know a lot about a regional issue, city, or state, or type of road system. There are two main forms of mentoring in Waze; Formal Mentoring, and Informal Mentoring. One is not intended to replace the other, but instead they are designed to coexist. Each form has its' own benefits and disadvantages which will be discussed below.
Formal mentoring
- For more details on Formal Mentoring, see Mentoring/Formal.
Formal Mentoring is a structured program, where a specific officially approved Waze Mentor and a Mentee are brought together, with a responsibility to accomplish a specific goal. The goal will be a defined objective, duration, and under a common set of rules, with the purpose to better some aspect of their Waze interaction. The objective may be building a particular skill over time, learning to participate in a certain aspect of the Waze community, learning how a portion of the Waze technology works, or mastering the skills required to increase the Mentees' editing rank.
Formal Mentoring can accelerate advancement of editor rank and/or roles while maintaining quality of editing and Waze Community interaction.
A Formal Mentoring arrangement will define the methods of communication, the frequency, and their intensity, and will include a definable objective, and normally a target date for completion.
Informal mentoring
- For more details on Informal Mentoring, see Mentoring/Informal.
Most of the mentoring on Waze takes place informally, without structure. Informal Mentoring goes on all the time when one Wazer asks a question of another and when one Wazer helps another. This happens any time two editors with different experience levels in some aspect of editing get together to help the Mentee better understand that aspect, and how to implement that knowledge.
We encourage you to engage in such interaction regularly and have some ideas for you here. Examples include the Waze Forum, WME Chat, dialog through Private Messages, and much more. Becoming a regular Informal Mentor is a great way to see if you're good at teaching various editing skills, and might be interested in Formal Mentoring.
Informal Mentoring usually either has no goal beyond the immediate issue at hand, or it may be a repeated interaction without an overarching defined goal guiding all of those interactions. Neither party has any formal responsibility to the other.
Mentoring resources
A list of available resources which can be used as part of both Formal, and Informal Mentoring is available at Mentoring/Resources.
All the Mentoring program pages are linked in the box below. New pages can be added to this list by clicking here.
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