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⭐ Our extraordinary Coaches play a key role in the Women Fellowship.
Coaching is a great way to get involved with the Startmate community, grow your personal network, develop your leadership and management skills, and give back and help uplift women.
The Spring24 program will run from 14 October to 6 December. To be a Coach for this cohort, you must be available to support your Fellows for this entire period.
🛑 Before you sign up as a Coach, please read the information below to ensure you fully understand the role and the expectations.
Once you’ve read and thoroughly understood the role of a Coach, what is expected of you, and that you meet the key requirements, you can 👉 sign up to be an Spring24 Women Fellowship Coach HERE 👈
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🦸 What does a Coach do?
⭐️ Each Coach is responsible for supporting a 1 Women Fellow for the duration of the Women Fellowship. Logistically, there are a few key responsibilities of a Coach:
- 👯♀️ 4 x (virtual) Coaching sessions
- The expectation is to run at least 4 x Coaching sessions across the 8-week program. Sessions are virtual, and should run for about 1 hour.
- For these sessions, you may choose whatever day/time suits you best, but this should be the same for each session.
- These sessions should be held the weeks of:
- 21 October
- 4 November
- 18 November
- 2 December
- 🏃♀️ 1x Speed Coaching session (if available)
- In Week 1, we’ll be running Speed Coaching on 16 October 5-6PM AEDT to help Fellows choose the right coach. This is not required, but is recommended to ensure a good match!
- During Speed Coaching, you will meet with up to 5 Fellows for 10 minutes each
- ✨ Help us select the Women Fellows!
- This cohort, we’re bringing back interviews as part of the selection process! We’d love for you to help us select our Women Fellows by joining us as an interviewer. You are able to sign up for as many/few selection nights as you have capacity for.
- You will interview up to 5 Fellows for 10 minutes each
- Interview nights will take place:
- 3 Sept (5:30-6:30PM AEST)
- 9 Sept (5:30-6:30PM AEST)
- 16 Sept (5:30-6:30PM AEST)
- 🤝 Offer ad hoc virtual support on Slack
- You will also provide ****ongoing support on Slack (i.e. checking Slack at least 1 x per week during the program). This includes:
- Checking in on your Fellow
- Answering questions
- Sharing resources
⚙️ How does it work?
- 🗓️ COACH ACTION: Coaches pick a recurring session day/time as part of their onboarding form.
- This information becomes a ‘sign up sheet’ for the Fellows.
- 🏃♀️ EVENT: Speed Coaching/Mixer takes place in Week 1 for Fellows and Coaches to meet each other, before Fellows select their coach
- ✍️ FELLOW ACTION: Women Fellows will self-select coaches as part of their own onboarding process.
- Note: Fellows will sign up for a Coach based on the time slot that suits them best, so once you sign-up as a Coach and lock in your recurring session time, you are expected to stick with it for the entire program!
- 💪 COACH ACTION: Once matches are finalised, Coaches will create a group chat & send out calendar invites for the 4 x sessions.
- 🚀 COACH ACTION: During the program, Coaches will leverage the ‘Coaching Roadmap’ as a key resource that walks through each week of the program.
- This resource includes key actions, sample comms to send to Fellows, and most importantly - an outline of how to run each of the 4 x Coaching Sessions.
✨ Purpose
When someone joins the Women Fellowship, they will most likely be entering a period of change and extraordinary personal growth. On top of this, they are joining a cohort of other exceptional women, and it is easy to feel lost, intimidated, or like there are too many options.
Coaching was created as a solution to this! Your role as a coach is to help guide the Fellow through the program and to achieve their goal, to help them land their dream job.
Typically, coaching serve the purpose of:
- Connecting with epic startup founders, investors, operators & leaders
- Facilitating psychological safety
- A space to ask questions & get guidance