11 Ways to Provide First Class #Mentorship to Your Mentee(s)
Mentorship is a force multiplier that has exponential effects for individuals and entire industries.
These ways will make sure that Mentors are providing maximum value at every opportunity. 🧵 🧵 🧵
Mentorship is a force multiplier that has exponential effects for individuals and entire industries.
These ways will make sure that Mentors are providing maximum value at every opportunity. 🧵 🧵 🧵
1️⃣Make it Formal
Many mentors don’t even know that a mentee considers them as such.
If I randomly asked your “mentor” to name their mentees, would you bet a pay check that your name would pop up?
Formalize this relationship with your mentees. It’ll foster trust moving forward.
Many mentors don’t even know that a mentee considers them as such.
If I randomly asked your “mentor” to name their mentees, would you bet a pay check that your name would pop up?
Formalize this relationship with your mentees. It’ll foster trust moving forward.
2️⃣Share Your Failures
Don’t focus solely on your career successes. This is not your time to impress someone.
Failures are the best lessons life has to offer. Make it a point to share yours and why you’re better off.
Your mentee will fail and must know that it’s normal.
Don’t focus solely on your career successes. This is not your time to impress someone.
Failures are the best lessons life has to offer. Make it a point to share yours and why you’re better off.
Your mentee will fail and must know that it’s normal.
3️⃣Mobilize Your Network
Do not act like you’ve experienced everything that your mentee is experiencing. You haven’t.
Fortunately, you likely have an experienced network of professionals your mentee can tap into to assist them with specific issues.
Use your network.
Do not act like you’ve experienced everything that your mentee is experiencing. You haven’t.
Fortunately, you likely have an experienced network of professionals your mentee can tap into to assist them with specific issues.
Use your network.
4️⃣Set Goals (Not You)
Don’t set goals for your mentees. Encourage your mentee with developing their own goals and a plan to achieve them.
Get your mentee to articulate their plan every session. These goals will be the wins that reinforce the value of the relationship.
Don’t set goals for your mentees. Encourage your mentee with developing their own goals and a plan to achieve them.
Get your mentee to articulate their plan every session. These goals will be the wins that reinforce the value of the relationship.
5️⃣Be Ready to Learn
Mentors should be the premier example of lifelong learning. This includes learning from your mentees.
This will provide a great example for your mentee to emulate and will make you a better mentor for your other mentees.
Thank them when they teach you.
Mentors should be the premier example of lifelong learning. This includes learning from your mentees.
This will provide a great example for your mentee to emulate and will make you a better mentor for your other mentees.
Thank them when they teach you.
6️⃣Mentor the Opposite Gender / Race
The most important thing is to provide value to your mentee. You can only do this if you have a wide range of experience mentoring different professionals with different perspectives.
Find someone who does not look like you and get to work.
The most important thing is to provide value to your mentee. You can only do this if you have a wide range of experience mentoring different professionals with different perspectives.
Find someone who does not look like you and get to work.
7️⃣Give Them Perspective
As a senior professional - give them the perspective of their senior leaders.
Don’t have pity parties with a mentee who has a tough boss. Use your experience to empathize with where the boss is coming from and where your mentee can adapt and improve.
As a senior professional - give them the perspective of their senior leaders.
Don’t have pity parties with a mentee who has a tough boss. Use your experience to empathize with where the boss is coming from and where your mentee can adapt and improve.
8️⃣Regular Sessions
Some mentor relationships consists of fluid talks multiple times a week. That’s great, but not necessarily the norm.
Set the next date at the end of each session no more than 90 days after to go over goal attainment and discuss pertinent topics.
Some mentor relationships consists of fluid talks multiple times a week. That’s great, but not necessarily the norm.
Set the next date at the end of each session no more than 90 days after to go over goal attainment and discuss pertinent topics.
9️⃣Prepare
You should be just as prepared as your mentee for your formal mentor session. Be ready to provide value to the session based on expectations from the last one.
Bring resources, bring a friend, do reasearch. Stream of consciousness gets stale and mentees deserve more.
You should be just as prepared as your mentee for your formal mentor session. Be ready to provide value to the session based on expectations from the last one.
Bring resources, bring a friend, do reasearch. Stream of consciousness gets stale and mentees deserve more.
🔟Choose Wisely
Mentor those you see potential in, not just anyone who asks. Why?
If you said yes to everyone and ended up with 20 mentees, how valuable would you be?
Your preparation and ability to keep scheduled commitments would suffer which isn’t fair to your mentee.
Mentor those you see potential in, not just anyone who asks. Why?
If you said yes to everyone and ended up with 20 mentees, how valuable would you be?
Your preparation and ability to keep scheduled commitments would suffer which isn’t fair to your mentee.
1️⃣1️⃣Encourage Them to be Mentors
If your mentee is ~30 years old with ~ 8 years of professional experience, challenge them to mentor someone. Help them see the value they’d bring as a mentor.
The mentor ecosystem will 🚀 once we each realize the value we uniquely can offer.
If your mentee is ~30 years old with ~ 8 years of professional experience, challenge them to mentor someone. Help them see the value they’d bring as a mentor.
The mentor ecosystem will 🚀 once we each realize the value we uniquely can offer.
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Mentorship has been hijacked over the years to the point where people pay for it and don’t even pick their mentor. This is a shame. Let’s take Mentorship back!
Mentorship has been hijacked over the years to the point where people pay for it and don’t even pick their mentor. This is a shame. Let’s take Mentorship back!
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