A Guide to Mentoring Others

Description

Mentoring is one of the few ways to pass on what you know while building leadership experience of your own. This course explains what a mentor does, and what a mentee is expected to bring. You’ll learn where to find a mentee and what to look for, then how a mentoring relationship moves from a first meeting through regular sessions to a planned ending. One lesson is devoted to probing questions, the technique that keeps a session useful. The last part covers five common problems, such as sessions with no focus or a mentee who leans on you for every idea, and what to do about each.

Two of the lessons include videos. The rest is reading broken into expandable sections, with flashcards, a readiness checklist, a scenario that asks how you would help a mentee, and a sorting activity on the do’s and don’ts of mentoring.

What you’ll be able to do

• Describe what a mentor does, from listening and advising to challenging a mentee and opening doors for them
• Decide whether you are ready to mentor someone now
• Recognize a good candidate for mentoring, including someone in transition or a top performer who needs a new challenge
• Run a first meeting that sets goals, roles, meeting frequency and how long the relationship will last
• Use open-ended probing questions to get a mentee to examine their own assumptions
• Give a mentoring session a structure: review the past, work on the present, agree on next steps
• Handle the five common mentoring problems, including unmet expectations and overdependence

Who it’s for

Experienced professionals, team leads and managers who have been asked to mentor someone, or who want to offer. It also helps if you are joining a formal mentoring program at your company.

What’s inside

7 lessons, self-paced:

1. Introduction to Mentoring
2. Who Should I Mentor?
3. How to Mentor Others
4. Asking Probing Questions
5. Common Mentoring Challenges
6. Do’s and Don’ts
7. Summary

What you get

• 365 days of access from the date of purchase
• A certificate of completion when you finish the course
• Your place is saved, so you can stop and come back whenever you like
• Works on a computer, tablet or phone

You can also get this course, and every other course in the library, with All Access for $99.99 a year.