On Day Ten of the SEED mentor matching cycle,
we have matched 20 out of the 28 legacy StorageTek SEED mentoring
participants. I am pleased that we completed 57% of the matches in
the first week – very quick indeed! Last term, we had 25% matcbed in
week 1; the term before that, we matched 18% in week 1.
Nonetheless, we have been getting more email than we expected of the
“why am I not matched yet?” variety. Each SEED participant is by the
nature of things new to our process and of course wants to be matched
right away.
16 of those matched were accepted by the first potential mentor we
asked. There are a few participants for whom we have asked 3 mentors so far.
There are a few people for whom we are on number seven or eight of their
15 person Mentor Wish List. (Not everyone on each Mentor Wish List gets asked
because there are lots of duplicate requests and, of course, some people
are known to be unavailable.) However, most are still being considered by
someone in their top four choices. Historically, 75% to 85% of
SEED participants are matched with a mentor who is in their top four.
I have started sending out the invitations to potential speakers for
our September world-wide
SEED meeting and should be able to announce the dates soon. Tanya Jankot
and I are well into our preparations for the next world-wide regular
SEED terms, to be announced in May 2006 and start in September 2006.
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