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Goals and Suggested Activities
Goals and Suggested Activities
Goal 1. Educate mentees about leadership challenges.
Goal 1. Educate mentees about leadership challenges.
Activity: Create activity related to leadership challenges – mentor can share a real-world challenge, mentee can create solution, large group discussion on whether the solution is practical in real world application, mentor can give feedback (and the outcome of the actual challenge)
Activity: Watch a Ted Talk on leadership and discuss the applicable information
Goal 2. Teach effective communication for both in-person and virtual settings.
Goal 2. Teach effective communication for both in-person and virtual settings.
Activity: Have the mentee create a presentation on a topic and have the mentor provide feedback on information, style, etc.
Activity: Mentees and Mentors create a list of jargon used in the planning profession to clarify meaning and usage while attenuating cases where effective use of communication tools (i.e., words, drawings, imagery, and technological systems) leveraged successful outcomes.
Goal 3. Help mentees identify and attain necessary skills to become an effective planner.
Goal 3. Help mentees identify and attain necessary skills to become an effective planner.
Activity: Identify a book, journal article, etc. to have both the mentor and mentee read, and discuss applicability to modern challenges in planning
Activity: Watch a webinar together, discuss how to improve knowledge and further career goals through webinar training
Activity: Create a skill share activity where the mentor is sharing a necessary skill for working in planning, such as how to present to the public, how to overcome your own bias to embrace what the community is expressing is important to them (even if it’s not to you), what to do in a public meeting, acclimating to a new work environment, managing the differing expectations of boards vs the public, etc.
Activity: Helping mentees understand how we use software programs that are commonly used in planning (larger group activity)
Activity: Practical application of development review.
Activity: Mentor presentations describing short work problems met: (i) problem breakdown, (ii) related methods/solutions, (iii) outcome, and (iv) skills required & lessons learned.
Goal 4. Create networking opportunities to improve skill-set and connect with other planning professionals, either generalists or with specialized experience.
Goal 4. Create networking opportunities to improve skill-set and connect with other planning professionals, either generalists or with specialized experience.
Activity: Meet in person if geographically close, virtual networking, try to send mentees/mentors to state conferences if funding available
Goal 5. Create active, engaging, and collaborative activities for mentors and mentees.
Goal 5. Create active, engaging, and collaborative activities for mentors and mentees.
Activity: For those able to meet in person, choose 2 days to job shadow. If not in person, share recorded public meetings of mentor doing their job and ask mentee for their observations about their conduct, knowledge, presentation, etc.
Activity: Mentor shares/includes activities/projects that mentee can work on
Activity: List problems, issues, that we are facing as a civil society and discuss whether the problems listed can be solved through the planning profession. Include other disciplines required. Then, link data sources and issues to verify whether there are problem-solving avenues. Now question whether those avenues are the right paths in today’s world. This exercise helps to consider solutions with current state of the art knowledge, technology, and data. (Related to Actions for Goal #6)
Goal 6. How to work in challenging political climates.
Goal 6. How to work in challenging political climates.
Activity: Mentors can share an example of how the political climate has impacted their work and discuss strategies to overcome political obstacles when a project is valuable to the community.
Goal 7. Understand the role of how data influences decision-making processes.
Goal 7. Understand the role of how data influences decision-making processes.
Activity: Discuss how to translate data into a meaningful public discussion, and how data translates into public policy (lecture with Q&A session) (mentor has a project that needs national level data, mentee pull and analyze a small data set, teaching where to find data)
Activity: Have all mentors and mentees create a collective list of data sources categorized by use.
Activity: Come up with a way to upload data sources in open access repository or website.
Goal 8. Prepare mentees for job interviews and career promotion.
Goal 8. Prepare mentees for job interviews and career promotion.
Activity: Resume revision
Activity: Discuss resume concerns and create a resume or resume revision session for mentee
Activity: Mock interviews
Activity: How to ask for a reference/Create a reference list for mentees
Goal 9. Extra activities to have fun and enhance relationships.
Goal 9. Extra activities to have fun and enhance relationships.
Activity: Have mentor and mentee play Cities: Skyline, Pocket City, Surviving Mars or similar game and discuss why things are placed as they are in the virtual city
Activity: Create a role-playing scenario for mentee and mentor
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