Before your 1st Pair Meeting
What to do
- Get to know each other (personal, professional)
- Establish guidelines (frequency, confidentiality, off-limits)
- Clarify goals and expectations (measurement, milestones)
- Partnership Agreement (both) and Learning Diary (mentee)
- Allocate primary responsibility (schedule, agenda, reminder)
Agenda
- Finalize Mentoring Agreement (timeframe, set a calendar)
- Consider similarities and differences how to value and respect differences and overcome challenges
- Explore career goals and aspirations discuss issues related career plan
- Brainstorm unique upcoming opportunities for development
- Verify progress against plan explore barriers, set-backs, alternatives
- Follow-up on action items celebrate milestones and progress
Effective Feedback
- Offer in a timely manner
- Focus on specific behaviors
- Acknowledge outside factors that may contribute
- Emphasize actions, solutions or strategies
Building Trust
- Being a proactive listener
- Cooperating with others
- Openly sharing, being vulnerable, accepting, non-judgemental
- Actions are parallel to words
- Authentic and true-to-self
- Actively seeking out different perspectives
- Having a positive, upbeat look
- Encouraging others to succeed
- Honouring and respecting confidentiality
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