Mentoring Orientation Workshop for Emerging Policy Practitioners: GRASP Cohort 2

The GRASP Fellowship is a career development program that targets mid-career African women in the policy field to catalyse the design and implementation of gender-responsive agricultural policies across Africa

Course curriculum

1. A word from the Senior Manager, Leadership and Training
2. Welcome to the Gender Responsive Agricultural Systems Policy (GRASP) Fellowship
3. An Overview of AWARD
4. AWARD's Strategic Approach for 2023–2027
5. Our Logo: An African Inspired Logo!
6. GETTING OUR TECHNOLOGY ORGANIZED 🚀!
7. AWARD Learning Community Technology Walkthrough
8. Getting Started With Zoom
9. Anglophone Participants Bio-Info Booklet-EPP MOW
10. VIEW - PARTICIPANTS BIOGRAPHY
11. Trainers Biographies
1. MOW: Fostering Mentoring Partnerships
2. MOW Course Schedule - Read and put in your agenda!
3. Teaching Methodology and Approach
1. Opening Ceremony
2. Learning Community Orientation: The Award Training Portal Guide
3. Video - AWARD Learning Community Technology Walkthrough
1. Welcome Session 2A
2. Course objectives and Agenda
3. Session 2A: Introduction to Mentoring
4. Session 2A: Bonding!
5. Session 2A: watch - A Firsthand Experience Of Mentoring - Video
6. Session 2A: Reflection Activity From Mentoring Experience Video
1. Let’s get started 🚀!
2. Session 2B: Listening as a Key Skill for Successful Mentoring Relationships
3. Session 2B:Career Timeline Template
4. Session 2B: Developing Your Career Timeline - Video
5. Session 2B: Developing Your Purpose Roadmap - Video
6. Session 2B: Purpose Road Map Template
7. Session 2B: Understanding personalities
1. Let’s get started 🚀!
2. Session 3A : Mentoring Tools
3. Session 3A: Working With Different Personalities Pre-Read
4. Session 3A: Personality Test
1. Let’s get started 🚀!
2. Session 3B - Building & Managing Networks Notes
3. Session 3B: Networking Framework
4. Session 3B: Presenting yourself with Confidence READING
5. Session 3B: Elevator Pitch
1. Let’s get started on Week 4A 🚀!
2. Session 4A: Assertive Communication
3. Session 4A:Conflict Management
4. Session 4A:Empowering Conversations
1. Let’s get started 🚀!
2. Session 4B: Working with the wider team
3. Session 4B: Working with Diversity
4. Session 4B: Working With Diversity Video
5. Session 4B: Working With The Wider Team Reading
6. Session 4B: Working With Diversity Reading
1. Purpose Launch Practice
2. Closing Ceremony Course evaluation
1. COACHING
1. PRM UPLOAD
1. Updated PRM

About this course

Free
54 lessons
0.5 hours of video content

Instructor(s)

Instructor Ezechiel Kiswendsida Ouedraogo

Master Coach | Trainer | Strategic Team-Building Facilitator Kiswendsida Ezechiel OUEDRAOGO is the Founder of ECLA Coaching Group and the CFC Academy. Certified as a Speaker, Trainer, and Coach by the John Maxwell Team, he brings over 22 years of experience empowering leaders, managers, and teams across 23 African countries. Specialized in leadership development, coaching, emotional intelligence, and positive psychology, he has trained and coached more than 5,000 professionals and mentored over 120 certified coaches and trainers. He is recognized for designing transformational leadership programs, facilitating strategic retreats for UN agencies, and leading impactful team-building sessions for multinational companies. Author of "Dare to Dream Your Life to Live the Dream," he is passionately committed to helping individuals and organizations unlock their potential, achieve excellence, and drive meaningful change. 🌍 | Inspiring Transformation. 🌟 | Leading with Purpose. 🚀 | Empowering Excellence.

AWARD Trainer MUGURE MUIGAI- SHIKALI

Mugure is a Leadership & Ethics Consultant. She is a member of the National Leadership and Integrity thematic working group of the Multi-sectoral Initiative against Corruption in Kenya. She has sat on several Boards among them the Ethical Leadership Network board, the Kenyan Boards of Visible Grace, and Education for All Children. She is currently the Secretary-General for Progressive Leadership Forum and the Founder & Executive Director at Ethics Core. Mugure has won several awards including the Barney Servant Leadership award, the Leadership and Character Award from Africa Nazarene University, and named poem Laureate of Africa Nazarene University. Her area of expertise is leadership, ethics, strategy, corporate governance, and organisation management. She has over 15 years of experience having consulted for global organisation in the Africa region, worked as Executive Director at Ethical Leadership Network, Managing Director at Visible Grace, and held different management roles at Africa Nazarene University. She holds a BSc in Computer Science, is due for the final defense of her MBA research, and MA in Ethics and Organisational Leadership. She is passionate about growing ethical leaders for Africa.