Society of Municipal Arborists Mentoring Program![]() Have you hit a “road bump” since graduating from SMA's Municipal Forestry Institute (MFI) or generally in your career? Or maybe you’re feeling “all alone” and need someone who understands the challenges unique to building a municipal urban forestry program? The Society of Municipal Arborists (SMA) Mentoring Program is here to help you!
This program will serve to re-energize and motivate talented municipal and urban forest professionals in their careers, through helping mentees work towards attaining their future goals. Importantly, the Mentoring Program will help to enhance leadership development for the mentees through the transfer of knowledge of the municipal forestry industry from more experienced mentors to less experienced mentees. Through a spirit of two-way communication, participants will identify what they need out of the Mentoring Program. Through regular, scheduled visits the mentee and mentors will pose questions to one another, and from their discussions, the mentee will gain a broader understanding of the importance of workplace culture in growing a career in the municipal forestry profession. The mentors may also use the mentoring program as a mechanism to broaden their succession planning processes and enhance their leadership skills through guiding emerging under-represented talent. The SMA Mentoring Program will:
Note: Participants are expected to commit in writing to the full one-year program and abide by an Agreement with SMA. Applications are currently closed for the SMA Mentoring Program.
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