Gaining a mentor can mean the difference in pushing you ahead of your professional goals. Mentoring is the act of guiding, counseling, and supporting. The mentor/mentee relationship is one often fraught with misconceptions. This training will teach you how to take the reins in the mentee role and how to guide the process and ask the right questions that will help the relationship succeed. Learn how to setup the right framework, manage weaknesses and come away successful, identifying milestones and accomplishing your goals.
Topics Covered:
- Establishing expectations
- Frequency/nature of meetings
- Length of relationship
- Goals for mentoring
- Boundaries
- Setting personal goals
- SMART Goals
- Short term vs long term goals
- Developing a personal plan
- Creating a timeline
- Identifying milestones
- Using milestones to guide mentoring
- Identifying gaps
- Not enough capital
- Unclear Vision
- Blind spots
- Asking better questions
- Effective question types
- Facilitated conversation
- Evaluating progress
- Measure process effectiveness, not outcomes
- Facilitated conversation- again!
This class is interactive as well as discussion orientated.
About Jason Hopper: Addicted to problem solving, Jason C. Hopper built a career upon developing people, teams, and organizations. His work as an educator/trainer, speaker, and strategic leadership consultant, focuses on using shifts in organizational culture and user experience to advance agendas. Jason and his wife Christina live in Central California with their three phenomenal kids. Jason holds a MA in Strategic Leadership from Life Pacific College in San Dimas California and has professional experience in workforce development, secondary and post-secondary education, career coaching, life coaching, start-up business development and management, and faith based initiatives.