For the last two Fridays I have included It's Friday and time for another #FlashbackFriday. Recently I have been receiving a lot of questions around setting up a mentoring program, and what typical mentor conversation sound like. As such, I thought it would be useful to take us back to #Teams365 #582: Mentoring: A Dozen Questions.
Whether you are creating a formal or informal program, mentoring can be a valuable, and lower cost, development approach for your team, your staff and/or your volunteers.
While every mentoring relationship is different questions usually get the conversation started. Here are a dozen questions you as a mentor and protege may want to use as a conversation starter during your conversations
1. Tell me about a time when you learned the most?
2. What do you see as the most important skills for (insert job title)?
3. What are the activities I can undertake to learn skills in x?
4. What has been your biggest learning throughout your career
5. What do you see as new trends for our work/organization on the horizon?
6. How do you navigate work-life issues?
7. What advice would you provide about projects? On-boarding? Getting up to speed? Making new connections? Keeping stakeholders engaged (definitely not be asked in one breath!)
8. In order to make the move from job A to job B what do you see as needed?
9. What do you do to keep abreast of professional development/trends?
10. Tell me what you think is important with....
11. What's your most valuable lesson learned?
12. Now that you know me, what's the one piece of advice you would offer me....
I hope that you will consider incorporating these questions in your upcoming mentoring conversations.
Best wishes,
Jennifer
Whether you are creating a formal or informal program, mentoring can be a valuable, and lower cost, development approach for your team, your staff and/or your volunteers.
While every mentoring relationship is different questions usually get the conversation started. Here are a dozen questions you as a mentor and protege may want to use as a conversation starter during your conversations
1. Tell me about a time when you learned the most?
2. What do you see as the most important skills for (insert job title)?
3. What are the activities I can undertake to learn skills in x?
4. What has been your biggest learning throughout your career
5. What do you see as new trends for our work/organization on the horizon?
6. How do you navigate work-life issues?
7. What advice would you provide about projects? On-boarding? Getting up to speed? Making new connections? Keeping stakeholders engaged (definitely not be asked in one breath!)
8. In order to make the move from job A to job B what do you see as needed?
9. What do you do to keep abreast of professional development/trends?
10. Tell me what you think is important with....
11. What's your most valuable lesson learned?
12. Now that you know me, what's the one piece of advice you would offer me....
I hope that you will consider incorporating these questions in your upcoming mentoring conversations.
Best wishes,
Jennifer
Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Mentor RoadMap(TM)
Looking to spark more conversation with your team? Consider the Conversation Sparker(TM) Cards
Set up a conversation about how we can support you and your team best
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Potentials Realized | Mentor RoadMap(TM)
Looking to spark more conversation with your team? Consider the Conversation Sparker(TM) Cards
Set up a conversation about how we can support you and your team best
(416)996-8326
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