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Leaders of African-Descent Power of One Mentoring Program
Presented by:
William Nixon, VP of Operations - Professional Development
PO1 Overview
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Power of One Overview
What is Power of OneWhat is Power of One?
A Mentoring Program Designed to Engage the C+ Managers within Lucent to
aid in the development and promotion of African-American associates within
Alcatel-Lucent.
How Does it work?How Does it work?
The Leaders of African-Descent National Board oversee the program.
The Leaders of African-Descent Regions help identify protégé’s, and help
provide local training and development opportunities for protégés.
The Leaders of African-Descent National Board will work with the Regions in
identifying and linking mentors with protégés.
The National Board help to solicit C+ Managers to volunteer to be mentors.
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Power of One Overview
What Are the Expectations for a Mentor?
Mentor at least one to two African-American employees over the next 12
months.
Aim to Promote or “Strategically Lateral” at least one African-American
Employee over the next 12 Months.
Support Leaders of African-Descent and its National and Regional programs.
Enhance and Support overall communication of the skills and qualifications of
African-American employees with other hiring managers.
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Power of One Overview
What Are the Requirements for Mentor and Protégé?
The Mentor should be at least 1 level higher than the protégé. The Mentor
can designate the protégé they wish to mentor and vice versa.
The Program is to continue for the duration of a year.
At a Minimum, there should be at least 3 Meetings during the year.
Mentor is to complete the expectation document with the protégé and
supply a copy to the PO1 coordinator.
Mentor is to complete a program evaluation with the protégé at the end of
the program year.
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Power of One Overview
What is expected of the Regional Teams?
Partner with National Board to establish mentoring program.
Participate on PO1 conference calls.
Help solicit mentors from the AA & non-AA C+ managers within the regional
community, and solicit and engage members as protégés.
When applicable, help sponsor quarterly protégé training and development
workshops.
Protégé Training programs to provide formal training to members on key
areas/topics: Resume Improvement, Interviewing Techniques, Networking,
etc.
When applicable, help kickoff and deploy Power of One Overview Workshop
material to regional community.
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Power of One Overview
What is expected of the Regional Teams?
Monitor the progress of the mentoring relationships to report to National
Board committee.
When a protégé in region is assigned to a mentor, request regional team to
periodically (3 months) obtain feedback from both the mentor and protégé.
Feedback should include: # of meetings completed or planned, issues or
concerns of either party, development, promotions, and mentoring activities
underway or planned.
Track the number of overall promotions, and/or strategic lateral and report to
the National team.
In the event the relationship is not working, the regional team should take
steps to change the relationship or try to resolve the issues.
Deployment Summary
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Program Deployment Schedule
Pilot (2006)
PO1 Overview Workshop (Regional Teams) – July 16, 2007
Notification to Members (Overview of Program/Deadlines) – TBD
Provide Assignments to Participants – TBD
Check Point Status - TBD
Track Program (Metrics) – TBD
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Next Steps
Visit www.ableinc.org to learn more about the P01 program.
Alcatel-Lucent on-line training available for both mentors and protégé in
preparation for the PO1 program: https://training.lucent.com/Saba/Web/Main
Mentors - Course Number: LBL112W
Protégé/Mentee – Course Number: LBL113W