American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Young Professionals Council (YPC) Mentoring Program: The Beta
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"American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Young Professionals Council (YPC) Mentoring Program: The Beta" is an overview of the mentoring program between Fall 2013 and Spring 2014. The statistics of who makes up the mentors and mentees as well as a brief response to survey questions are shown in graphic form.
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American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Young Professionals Council (YPC) Mentoring Program: The Beta
- ASPRS YPC Mentoring: The Beta Ryan Elizabeth Bowe, GISP Photo Science, a Quantum Spatial Company
- Agenda • Overview of the Program • Statistics • Feedback • Next planned steps • Working session • Comments • Suggestions • Feedback • Social: Bluegrass Brewing Company tonight at 7:30PM
- Important Dates • Mentoring E-mail from Kim on June 24, 2013 • Adds in PE&RS • Matches made in Fall 2013 • Letters sent September 2013 • San Antonio Conference October 27-30, 2013
- ASPRS Young Professional Council website
- The Numbers • 51 people currently involved in mentoring • 31 Mentors • 21 Mentees • Rate of response • Members / Non-members • Divisions • Regions • Time commitments • Interests
- The Mentoring Forms Mentor Recruiting • Basics • Region; ASPRS Number • ASPRS Division Affiliation • Time Commitment • Why? • Skills • Similar questions • Employer Mentee Recruiting • Basics • Region; ASPRS Number • ASPRS Division Affiliation • Time Commitment • Why? • Skills • Membership • Proposed Mentor
- Rate of Response 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 June July August September October November December January February March Mentor Mentee
- Mentor v. Mentee 32 20 Mentors Mentees
- Divisions 14 9 6 13 10 GIS LiDAR Professional Practice Remote Sensing None
- Divisions By Type Mentor Mentee 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 GIS LiDAR Professional Practice Remote Sensing None Mentor 3 5 5 10 9 Mentee 11 4 1 3 1 Mentor Mentee
- Regions
- Regions - Mentors
- Regions - Mentees
- Region by Type Mentor 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 At Large Central New York Eastern Great Lakes Florida Mid- South New England NorCal Ptmc Puget Sound Rocky Mtn St. Louis Inter- Mtn W Great Lakes None Mentor 3 1 1 3 6 1 3 6 1 1 1 1 1 Mentee 1 0 0 3 5 1 2 5 2 Mentor Mentee
- Time Commitment 9 23 17 2 1-2 Hours a week 5 hours a month As Much as needed No Response
- Time Commitment by Type Mentors Mentees 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 1-2 Hours a week 5 hours a month As Much as needed No Response Mentors 6 16 7 2 Mentees 3 7 10 0 Mentors Mentees
- Interests 29 26 22 19 28 17 11 6 Management Analyst Career Development - Academia Career Development - Government Career Devemopment - Private Sector Research - Proposals Research - Grant Writing Other
- Interests by Type Mentor Mentee 0 5 10 15 20 25 Management Analyst Career Development - Academia Career Development - Government Career Dev. - Private Sector Research - Proposals Research - Grant Writing Other Mentor 21 14 12 10 15 11 5 5 Mentee 8 12 10 9 13 6 6 1 Mentor Mentee
- Mentor Employment Type 6 1 14 5 1 1 1 2 Academia Other Private Sector Public Sector / Government Public Sector / Government, Private Sector Public Sector / Government, Private Sector, Retired Retired No Response
- Mentee Membership 2 13 2 3 Membership No Student Associate Active 6 3 Join Yes Maybe
- Survey Results 14 of 50 replies
- The Survey Itself • Have you communicated with your mentor/mentee? • How many times have you contacted your mentor/mentee? • Please tell us about your meetings or why you haven’t contacted your mentor/mentee. • How would you rate the value of your experience with the mentoring program? • Were there too many or too few communications from the YPC Mentoring Working Group? • What forms of communication would you like to see YPC Mentoring Working Group use? • In general, how understandable was the Mentoring Program to you?
- Making Contact 13 1 Yes No 5 1 3 3 1 1 5+ 4 3 2 1 0
- Rate the value Value 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
- Resources • E-mail most important • LinkedIn • ASPRS Website • Other (GoToMeeting) • Facebook • No one wants us to use Twitter
- If I had to give us a grade… • 45+ contacts were made • Majority say we are doing well on communication • We were on the upper side of being understandable • Adding all the answers to how would you rate the value, we received a 97 out of a potential 140. • We still have room for improvement, which is why we do beta tests, right?
- Known Problems • People become too busy to participate. • “Matching” mentor/mentee is time consuming and there is no “right” answer • Sustainability • Impersonal letters • Need to improve “profiles” • Structuring? • Tracking • Intimidating?
- Commentary • Mentors learn from mentees! • Several people found internships / jobs • Field trips • Connection to other members when not “right” mentor for the job • Good ice-breaker • Fantastic resource; priceless • Strong support continues • Personalization and responsiveness appreciated
- Suggestions • Success Stories to encourage participation • Brown-bag webinars (web-based seminars) • Self-service process • YPC troubleshooters • More Guidelines (FAQ page) • Make it spatial (face to face)
- QR Codes Mentors Mentors
- http://www.asprs.org/Young-Professionals- Council/Young-Professionals- Council.html#mentoring See you tonight! Bluegrass Brewing Company 300 West Main Street; Louisville, KY 40202-2945 Thank you to our sponsors: Woolpert and Mid-South Region ASPRS
Editor's Notes
- I could not have done this alone. I had the support of multiple committee members, many of whom you see here (Hui; Amr; Devin; and Patrick) and several of whom could not be here today. Specifically, Alex Ubban. And, of course, the mentors and mentees. It is amazing to see the responses.Just like the mentoring program, I want this session to be very flexible. I want to encourage participation so please stop me if you have questions. I will start with a quick overview of the make up of the mentors and mentees, talk about the survey and Again, I cannot stress that the structure of this special session is informal and meant to help the YPC take the mentoring program to the next level.I will be giving out drink tickets for the social tonight for those who participate. Yes, I am bribing you!
- Quick background: Headquarters sent out a blast e-mail on June 24 with our surveys. They also took out ads in PE&RS. We waited a while to gather responses and then started the mentoring match making in August 2013. Two of us took the mentors and mentees and came up with completely different matches in every case. This was perfect because we had a great ratio of mentors to mentees.
- Each mentee received two mentors. Which worked really well, I think. It means we will be able to sell the program based on access to exceptional mentors.
- Here’s a list of the questions the forms asked. You can see the mentors were asked about employers but mentees were not. While Mentees were asked about membership.
- I was overwhelmed by the immediate response. I will need to update this graph because I have convinced many people to participate at the conference.
- Again, it is great to see that we have more mentees than mentors.
- The division break down is a tough one because many active members are associated with multiple divisions. But, clearly I have to recruit GISD mentors.
- Many people want to be matched spatially. But, we have regions without mentees, so this was very difficult to do.
- Most people were willing to spend 5 hours a month, second being As much time as needed.
- We were pretty well split on the different interests. This was a multiple-selection area for both mentors and mentees.
- Most of our mentors come from the private sector, but government was second.
- I love that no one said that mentoring would cause them not to join ASPRS. And, most of our participants were students. We did have those who were not members, but they are basically going to be forced to join once the beta is over.
- I’m not going to read the questions to you, but I am going to ask you to read them and see if we can improve any. Same goes for the mentoring “sign up” forms.
- Most responders had contacted their “partner” and many had contacted them many times!
- (and google links are evil) But if you can’t get this, you can find the links on our ASPRS web page. Navigate to that page through Organization > Young Professional’s Council and then go to our Initiatives (under Mentoring).