The SEED (Sun Engineering Enrichment and Development) mentoring term
was announced yesterday by CTO and SEED sponsor
Greg Papadopoulos. SEED is an Engineering-wide long-term leadership
growth program. SEED program participants are expected to rise
to the top of Sun Engineering’s individual contributor or management ranks.
The Recent Hire and Established staff terms of about 35 each
will start in September 2006. All materials are due 12 June 2006.
We already have 9 applications:
- Central USA: 3 [ 33% ]
- China: 1 [ 11% ]
- Russia: 1 [ 11% ]
- United Kingdom: 2 [ 22% ]
- Western USA: 2 [ 22% ]
The SEED program is not Sun’s only mentoring program. What makes
it different is that the SEED program is
- Sun’s only program in which about 75% of mentors are Sun executives (Distinguished Engineers, Directors, Fellows, Vice Presidents, etc.)
- open to all of Sun Engineering (any group, any location), with the goal of identifying and supporting future leaders of Engineering
- focussed on accelerating participants’ career development and learning overall (not on specific skills development)
- building and strengthening connections within Sun’s Engineering Community and with the rest of Sun
- free to participants, except for a small charge if they choose to take mentor partnership facilitation training
Despite their different goals, many mentoring programs have value,
depending on what the participant and their manager are looking for.
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