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Prerequisites

1️⃣ Your calls happen smoothly.

• Show up for every meeting!!
• Show up on time.
• Set an example and prepare for each meeting in advance.
• Try to avoid rescheduling any meetings in the first month.
• Send your mentee reminders to prep ~1 day before your meetings for at least the first month.
• Establish regular meetings (continued mentorship stage).

Mentees have found unreliable mentors demotivating in past programmes.

2️⃣ You build a comfortable relationship with your mentee.

• Spending time getting to know your mentees as people (and organisers, of course) is important!
• Share your ideas, details about your EA journey, and other things in your life with them. This is key for building trust and familiarity.
• Once your mentees feel comfortable and relaxed around you, it will be easier for them to ask questions and share what’s on their minds.
  • This is particularly important for mentees from underrepresented backgrounds in EA or with lower social confidence.
• Mentees tend to enjoy OSP meetings more if they get on well with their mentor.

Adding Value

Group organisers have different strengths and weaknesses. As such, instead of following step-by-step instructions, an excellent mentor should explore which ways of adding value are most useful for their mentees, and then double down on those.