Mentor

Mentoring, at its core, is a relationship that engages the enthusiasm of both the mentee and the mentor to learn and to grow and to take action as you both pursue your noble goals. That relationship oftentimes cuts across community and organizational boundaries, and calls for a trusting partnership involving individuals who would not normally have occasion to know or work with one another. Effective mentors, then, hone and refine their skills and abilities to build bonds, to work collaboratively, to coach, and to model those skills for their mentees.

In this seminar, we focus on the relationship between mentor and mentee, and we teach you and require you to apply practical frameworks that will help you build relationships and coach the individuals whom you mentor as you and they pursue your noble goals. You will fine-tune your skills to engage your mentees to enthusiastically take ownership and action for their learning and growth as future citizens and leaders in their communities.

We will begin with you, the mentor. We will ask you to explore your own truth as a mentor: your personal motivation for wanting to take on the role of a mentor, and the qualities of character that you bring to this role. These all-important pillars of personal motivation and character serve as a basis for your own enthusiasm and as a basis for your relationship with your mentees.

Then we will provide you with tools to make consistent meaningful contributions to your community as a mentor. We will provide you with a practical framework to help you build mentoring relationships, the aim of which will be to arrive at alignment around common interests, and a means to further those common interests between yourself and your mentee. Finally, we will ask you to learn and apply a framework that will help you engage your mentees in a coaching dialogue on an on-going basis across a wide spectrum of situations: life and career planning, situational coaching, corrective feedback, and much more.