Mentor Guide
Emmanuel
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"A great mentoring experience is built on trust, respect, and rapport."
1. Build rapport and facilitate a great first conversation experience:
A great mentoring relationship has elements of trust, mutual respect, and openness. Most students struggle with the first conversation. As a mentor find ice breakers to help students feel comfortable.
Quick Tip:
Make sure you read their profiles, get to know me prompts, and come prepared with some questions to better know your mentee.
2. Set expectations and ground rules:
A mentor is NOT a buddy to their mentees nor are they a manager.
Your responsibility is to act as a guide to help students accomplish the goals set out for the experience. What your mentee can expect from you is knowledge, guidance, perspective, and network in a professional yet friendly atmosphere. It is up to the mentee to decide what to do with your input.
In a mentee’s moment of difficulty, you listen, understand, provide alternatives and explore.
3. Talk about mentee’s SMART Goals and objectives:
Sometimes your mentees may not be completely sure how they want to accomplish their goals. In such a situation ask, understand, and dig deep into the mentees' needs and goals during your first meeting.
4. Set a flexible contact schedule:
Mentors have the flexibility to set the number of meetings they want to have with their mentees.
You can set up a bi-weekly or monthly meeting based on the goal you are accomplishing with your mentee and your schedule.
We recommend a minimum of 3 meetings (Intro - Midpoint and Recap meeting) for every mentoring experience.
5. Asynchronous mentoring:
Our mentoring dashboard permits mentoring to be effective asynchronously.
Please use the task feature to create goals and milestones for you and your mentee when needed. This will help drive your relationship with your mentee asynchronously.
A quick tip:
Your mentee should lead what task they want to complete weekly or bi-weekly with you.
When a task is created for your to provide guidance on, please ensure that you respond with your feedback in a timely manner.
6. Be a guide (Listen, Ask, Guide):
During your relationship, your mentee will come to you with some questions and issues. It may be tempting to respond immediately which may not address the real issue.
We recommend that you pause, evaluate the situation carefully and ask relevant questions. When your mentee comes to you with an issue or question.
As a mentor, you should offer your advice and guide the mentee by exploring alternative solutions and leaving the choice to the mentee.
7. Be accountable:
Since you’ve been involved with the mentee’s goals, as a result of your meetings and discussions you can assign action items for progress.
Having devoted your time and effort, you can expect results from your mentee by completing the action items you set.
8. Open doors:
You have connections that your mentee can benefit from. Open doors by making these intros when appropriate.
9. Learn from your mentee:
This is an opportunity to be reminded of the fundamentals related to how you began your journey and be thankful. Also, understand the latest technology and social media from your mentee.
10. Have fun:
Mentoring should be fun. You are here because you are driven by the potential impact you will have on your mentee.
Enjoy the process
11. Non-responsive mentees:
In any event where a mentee is not responsive, please try reaching out to your mentee to ensure that you have a full grasp of the situation. If this perpetuates, reach out to Skilbi so that further action can be taken.
You can flag a non-responsive student by ending the mentoring relationship and providing feedback to Skilbi.