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Managers Mentoring Program

The primary goal of the Farmers Market Managers Mentoring Program is to increase farmers market manager skills through a mentoring process, effecting positive change in management practices, market policies, procedures and programming. The improvement in market manager skills will help markets to fulfill their goals and missions to serve their farmers, consumers and host communities.

Read through the PowerPoint presentations to learn the roles and responsibilities of participating in the program and being in a mentoring relationship. Click on the images to download the PowerPoint presentation.

Mentoring Program

Farmers Market Managers Mentoring Program

Being a Mentor

Farmers' Market Managers Mentoring Program - Being a Mentor

Learning from a Mentor

Farmers' Market Managers Mentoring Program - Learning From a Mentor

Farmers Market Managers Mentor Program
Mentoring Work Plan Agreement Template

The Work Plan Agreement is between the mentor and mentee and spells out the work to be done under the mentoring relationship. This includes the goals to be accomplished and the steps to be undertaken to achieve those goals. This template will help guide mentors and mentees to develop an agreement that will steer their mentoring relationship.

Click here to download the template (PDF)


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