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Concluding and celebrating your program

Concluding and celebrating your program

From the course: Developing a Mentoring Program

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Concluding and celebrating your program

- You did it, you're done, you made it, you're through, oh, what a great moment, now what will you do is a quote by author Sandra Boynton. Sometimes when I'm wrapping up a class or a mentoring program, I like to use a quote that says it all. Concluding your mentoring program is both an opportunity to celebrate and plant seeds for your future programs. I will share three ideas to help you wrap up your mentoring program. These three ideas are showcase, recognize, and celebrate. First, showcase the accomplishments of your mentors and proteges. If your mentors and proteges completed an action learning project together, then conclude your program with an event that enables the proteges to present the projects. For example, I had an engineering client that paired senior engineers with junior engineers. One of the action learning projects completed was to develop a community learning outreach program to promote understanding of water infrastructure. As a result of this presentation, the…

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