Mentoring Asian American Professionals (MAAP) - 2011 program Launch

EMBRACING THE HOPES AND ASPIRATIONS OF ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICANS

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FREE for OCA members - A generous grant from RBC foundation. To join OCA, please visit www.ocanational.org - membership - join oca.

We encourage Asian American from government agencies, non-profit organization, large or small corporations to join us. Together we can create a better network of business professionals.

Program Goal

Mentors and mentees are strongly encouraged to meet twice before the group reflection and twice after. By design, their meetings will be structured around specific professional development topics, and the mentoring team will be provided with a discussion guide for each meeting. Mentees will be expected to complete a worksheet for each session that will build their analysis, skills, and development of personal action plans.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

PROGRAM ORIENTATION  

Successful Mentoring Relationships:  What does it look like?

Saturday June 11, 2011 

This session will offer the participants of the program an opportunity to receive a thorough orientation to the program’s purpose as well as the structure and process of the mentoring dialogue drawing from a number of best practices in the field of professional development.  Interactive activities and discussions will be facilitated by the MAAP training team to support greater familiarity with the mentoring team roles, responsibilities, and connectivity to the local, regional, and national MAAP Network.

MIDWAY CONVENING 

Getting Out There: How to Best Leverage Your Networks

Saturday July 9, 2011

Focused on networking, this network convening will explore opportunities as well as challenges in cultivating and leveraging on relationships.  The three key issues that will be covered in a workshop style format are:  1.)  five reasons why current networking strategies may not be effective and/or efficient, 2.)  Strategies for communication, negotiations, and leveraging the power of networks, and 3.)  Leadership and mentoring as a platform for creating confluence and influence.  Firmly anchored by personal mission and vision statements, participants are encouraged to continue exploring their own motivations for developing personal and professional goals and objectives.  This session will serve as a prelude to the personal planning session.  

FINAL CONVENING   

Ready, Set, Action: AAPI Leadership

Saturday July 30, 2011

This network convening will be focused on opportunities as well as challenges in integrating social responsibility as part of personal and professional development planning.  The three key issues that will be covered in a workshop style format are: 1.) How to jump start the personal brand through social responsibility, 2.) Identify ways to achieve personal and professional goals, and 3.) Participate in a team approach to career strategy planning.

Mentoring Team Profiles & Criteria for Participation

Mentor

Mentee

§      Asian American professional interested in

     exploring professional development

     process with a mentor

§      Commitment to developing new       

     personal/professional skills through four

     1:1 mentoring meetings and two network

     convenings

Program Fees & Costs

There are OCA member and non-member fees to participate as mentors as well as mentees.  The program cost for 2011 cycle are as follows: 

§         OCA Member rate $30 per participant, includes all materials and participation in workshops held at the three Mentoring Network Convenings <<< Now free because generous grant from RBC >>>

§         Non-OCA Member rate $70 per participant which includes all materials, participation in workshops held at the three Mentoring Network Convenings and 1 year annual membership to OCA (optional).     <<< OCA-Chicago encourage everyone to signup as OCA member and take advantage the generous grant from RBC - go to www.ocanational.org under membership and join OCA before registering for this program>>>

The mentoring meetings that are arranged between the mentoring pairs may take place over coffee or lunch.  The costs associated with mentoring meetings will be the responsibility of the mentoring teams.

This program has been designed as an experiential learning opportunity to benefit mentees as well as mentors.  The MAAP Program sees both mentors as well as mentees to be engaged in the learning process and as such, the program fees applies equally to both stakeholders. 

While we have been able to secure generous funding from UPS, in order to administer and sustain this National program in multiple locations, participant fees will ensure adequate resources are devoted for this program cycle and beyond.

Additional questions - Go to http://www.oca-maap.org./maap-cohorts/maap-chicago or  contact George Mui - gcmui@comcast.net