Course curriculum

  • 1

    Program Launch: Welcome and Opening Ceremony🎊 😃👏🏾: Session 1: Thursday Aug 3, 2023

    • Program Launch

    • Getting Our Technology organized🚀!

    • PREPARE- Participant's Biographies

    • Trainer's Profiles

    • CIFOR-ICRAF Staff

    • AWARD Staff

    • Setting up Mentor-Mentee Pair Coding

    • Setting the Tone

    • Getting to know each Other in Mentee / Mentor

    • Intro to CIFOR-ICRAF Mentoring

    • PREPARE - Getting Started with Zoom

    • PREPARE: Video - AWARD Learning Community Technology Walkthrough

    • Learning Community Support

    • CIFOR-ICRAF Mentoring Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

    • AWARD GDPR Compliance Statement

    • Assignment

    • Wrap Up
  • 2

    Session 2: Tuesday Aug 8, 2023

    • Welcome & Check in

    • Identifying Individual intention and collective potential

    • Presenting your purpose with confidence

    • Defining / Redefining your developmental purpose

    • Assignment

    • Wrap Up
  • 3

    Session 3: Thursday Aug 10, 2023

    • Welcome & Check in

    • Basic Understanding of Mentoring and Expectations

    • Defining / Redefining your developmental purpose

    • Exploring your resources Competency and knowledge gaps

    • Mentoring Tools

    • Other Mentoring Tools

    • Wrap up

    • Expectations

    • Assignment
  • 4

    Session 4: Tuesday Aug 15, 2023

    • Welcome & Check in

    • Starting a Mentoring Relationships

    • Working with personality in the mentoring relationship

    • A framework and tips for managing conflict in the mentoring relationship

    • Wrap Up

    • Assignment: Thomas-Kilmann conflict mode instrument (TKI)

    • PURPOSE ROAD MAP (PRM) V1

    • MENTORING GOALS V1

    • COMPETENCY ANALYSIS V1

    • MENTORING AGREEMENT V1
  • 5

    Session 5 : Thursday Aug 24, 2023

    • Welcome & Check in

    • Listening as a key skill for successful mentoring relationships

    • Pre-Course Assignments

    • Expectations Activity from Jamboards

    • Wrap up
  • 6

    Session 6: Tuesday Aug 29, 2023

    • Welcome & Check in

    • Empowering Conversations

    • Assignment: Pre read – Building and Managing Network

    • The Power of Assertive Communication

    • Video by Sheila Heen on receiving feedback

    • Expectations Activity From Jamboards

    • Wrap up
  • 7

    Session 7: Thursday Aug 31, 2023

    • Welcome & Check in

    • Assignment – Purpose Launch

    • Building and managing networks

    • Expectations Activity From Jamboards

    • Wrap up
  • 8

    Session 8: Tuesday Sept 5, 2023

    • Welcome & Check in

    • Pre - reading: Building and managing networks

    • Coaching Guidelines - The CIFOR-ICRAF Mentoring Program

    • Mentoring Tools

    • Other Mentoring Tools

    • Expectations Activity From Jamboards

    • Formal closing
  • 9

    Sept 11-15 2023 : PRM Individual Coaching

    • Welcome & Check in

Course facilitators

Pamela Yieke

Training Consultant, Training Yard (TY) Consultants

Ms. Pamela Yoga-Yieke is a training consultant with over 20 years of experience working with a wide range of clients including corporations, government departments, and non-governmental organizations. She is a lead consultant at Training Yard (TY) Consultants and an associate consultant with two top firms in Africa and the United States. Her key areas of specialization include leadership and management training, enhancing negotiation and presentation skills, training in effective customer service, performance management, and facilitation skills. She is also a coach and mentor who believes that the younger generation must be adequately equipped for the challenging business world. Ms. Yoga-Yieke has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and is a certified MBTI practitioner and coach. With her strong belief that awakening people’s potential through heightened self-awareness and development is the key to both personal and organizational success, she brings to the A-TEAM leadership, management, coaching, and mentoring expertise.
Benjamin Kamoye

Douglas Ouma

Organizational Development Expert

Dr. Douglas Ouma is an organizational development expert. He has over 20 years of experience in project management, development communication, organizational development, training and research, and environmental assessment and management. He has designed and implemented several capacity development programmes in sub-Saharan Africa, and worked as a consultant for USAID – Feed the Future, World Bank, European Union, the East African Community, World Wide Fund for Nature, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, and the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in East and Central Africa. Mr. Ouma holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration (Strategic Management) from the African Nazarene University, Kenya, an MPhil in Environmental Studies from Moi University, Kenya, and a BSc in Information Sciences from the same institution. Having conducted consultancy assignments within government departments, and local and international non-profit organizations in agriculture, he brings to the ATEAM extensive knowledge on training skills, leadership, strategic planning, and monitoring and evaluation.
Douglas Ouma