Today in the Reps call, we brainstormed about the future of the Reps program. Since not everyone could attend the call, we will continue the discussion here. You’ll find all the answers from the call in the second comment here.
We need everyones input to improve and we would really appreciate your feedback/answers to these questons:
What are the things you would like to improve?
How do you see the program in the next year?
What would you like Council/Peers to do during the Work Week?
I’m sorry this took so long. I basically had to reformat everything. I will check with @majken why the html-export → markdown import didn’t work.
Please keep in mind that these are meeting notes, they might have been been shortened when necessary. If you have any questions, please discuss below. I hope I have copied everything correctly.
getting to the point where there is a very high level (culture of excellence) where people realize that actions are being watched by the community and everything should be high quality
Helping hand, lets put extra effort into helping reps who are new/unsure or just need that little bit of guidence even if their mentor is not around all the time. It would have helped me and I want to do that for others. In short, little more transparenceny and more exclusivity (Gah, spelling, I need coffee)
However we embrace the future of Reps, I think the portal needs to reflect that as a first step, because it still reflects old missions, definitions etc. It’s confusing and ultimately misleading to some of these conversations
I would like to see the Reps can be the leader for the local community, also activate the functional team lead roles within the Reps and Mozillians in the local community.
Focusing on a leadership development program for the Reps
How do you see the program in the next year? What a should Rep role be? What would you like Council/Peers to do during the Work Week?
We have combined those questions in our call due to time constraints, feel free to answer them separately below!
the evolution of Reps is how they align with the goalsmore interested in how the council and mentor roles get reorganized
current model is not linear set in stones (people in council might not be good mentors, mentors might not be good council members) (Action: Michael to create an action item for Whistler)
Remo 2.0 document was interesting - how many people know about it?
interaction with the bigger reps community as well as the mentorship program might be of great importance
Similar to Deb - if council could rebuild the reps program (including definitions of roles) in the lense of recent conversations in paris, and this call - what would it look like . What would you keep; throw away, build entirely different? (Action: Michael to create action item for Whistler)
a year really focused on auditing the program to streamline and align towards the same vision
we don’t have the same vision for the program
culture of excellence is intimidating
Rosana: what is intimidating in excellence
Kensie: you have to be careful, it’s stressful there is a rift in what the program should be
Emma: be careful about labels, because we have an issue with emerging leaders, we have an issue sometimes with people’s confidence, and overconfidence. take a year to be efficient
direct interaction with teams in mozilla from the first side and in the other side with mozillians.org to mentor them with activities and action items fixed as blockers or high priority
