Leaders of African-Descent Power of One Mentoring Program Presented by: William Nixon, VP of Operations - Professional Development

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.



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.



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.



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.



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


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


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

Documents

Leaders of African-Descent Power of One Mentoring Program Presented by: William Nixon, VP of Operations - Professional Development