2021-06-10: Open Mentor Office Hours & Improving Dev Stages

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What’s this about? This is a time and space to advance a culture of mentoring in our community by:

  • Connecting with other OpenMRS mentors
  • Sharing mentoring tools and resources
  • Asking questions about mentorship techniques and tools
  • Discussing ways to succeed as a mentor

Recently, we’ve been using this time to improve our OpenMRS stages for a variety of dev and QA skills.

Who: Fellow mentors, GSoC mentors, and anyone in the community interested in mentoring others and/or improving our dev stages.

When: Thursday, 10 June at 10:30pm IST | 8pm Nairobi | 7pm Cape Town | 5pm UTC | 1pm Boston | 10am Seattle

Where: https://om.rs/zoomuniv

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This caption grants me a direct ticket :rocket: for the meeting. Thanks @jennifer

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Thanks for the great discussion! @kdaud @jwnasambu @dkayiwa @gracebish @settix.

After we wrapped up, I thought I would look and see what one of my “go-to” mentoring skills resources had to say about two of the topics we discussed. Here’s what they have to say about building trust and being encouraging:

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Anything you see here that we didn’t bring up?

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Thanks @jennifer for sharing this. I really like your culture of researching.

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Thanks @jennifer for sharing. Under Encouraging, Complementing fellow mentors on accomplishments and actions stands out. Actually, we talked more on how a mentor should encourage the mentees. The mentor also needs a lot of encouragement.

:muscle:Quite resourceful.

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Thanks @jennifer . I think everything here was hinted on either directly or indirectly.

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So in your experience, what are some ways that mentees encourage you? What do they do that inspires you to help them grow?

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I am always encouraged when i share a resource with a mentee and the resource helps him/her to achieve the goal. Getting feedback encourages me.