The Art Of Mentorship: How To Become An Impactful Mentor

Become an Impactful Mentor to grow your career and become a better leader, coach, or consultant.

What you'll learn

Understand the benefits and importance of mentorship

Develop a Mentor profile to identify the best Mentee matches

Expand your mentoring and communication skills

Identify and overcome common mentorship challenges

Requirements

There are no prerequisites for this course, although most Mentors have experience or specific knowledge to share.

Description

Do you want to become a more impactful leader? Inspire the next generation, help ambitious professionals or business owners succeed? Then you should become a Mentor. Grow your network and leave a legacy behind for people climbing the ladder behind you and add value to your profession, industry or company. By becoming a Mentor you can help Mentees grow a career their proud of, increase employee retention rates and happiness at work in your company and alongside that feel-good feeling, there's lots of amazing benefits for you to become a Mentor, too.This course is packed with the most up to date information around being a Mentor from an industry advocate, Katie Doyle, founder of Mentor Her. You'll find amazing resources including workbooks that can help you better develop as an expert Mentor in your field. You'll create a Mentor profile to better advertise your mentorship skills to possible Mentees, find out more about yourself and where your interest and ability lies, understand the ways to have a positive and big impact on different types of Mentees, alongside how to overcome challenges if they arise.Katie has matched over 3000 people and trained Mentors around the world to help get to the next level, and through this course she can do the same for you! Get started and find out how you can have the greatest impact on a Mentee today.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Section 2: What is Mentoring?

Lecture 2 The Different Types of Support

Lecture 3 Mentoring vs. Coaching

Lecture 4 Defining Mentorship

Lecture 5 Mentorship in Film

Lecture 6 Types of Mentoring

Lecture 7 The Mentor/Mentee Relationship

Lecture 8 Benefits and Outcomes of Mentorship

Section 3: Becoming a Mentor

Lecture 9 Types of Mentors

Lecture 10 Topics you can Mentor on

Lecture 11 Failures to Inspiration

Lecture 12 Identifying the Right Mentee

Section 4: Your First Meeting

Lecture 13 Aligning Values

Lecture 14 Outline Their Goals

Lecture 15 Setting Expectations

Lecture 16 Wrapping Up Meetings

Section 5: 12 Best Practices for Conversations

Lecture 17 Open-Ended Questions

Lecture 18 Build-Up

Lecture 19 The Right Tone

Lecture 20 What interests you?

Lecture 21 Active-Listening

Lecture 22 Don't Interrupt

Lecture 23 Paraphrase

Lecture 24 Verbal Affirmations

Lecture 25 Recall Earlier Points

Lecture 26 Non-Verbal Communication

Lecture 27 Over-sharing

Lecture 28 Thank them!

Section 6: Mentee Missteps

Lecture 29 The Over-Committer

Lecture 30 The Ghost

Lecture 31 The Doormat

Lecture 32 The Vampire

Lecture 33 The Lone Wolf

Lecture 34 The Backstabber

Section 7: Mentor Challenges

Lecture 35 Over-Communication

Lecture 36 Under-Communication

Lecture 37 The "I don't know"

Lecture 38 When Advice is not Taken

Lecture 39 Don't be a "Bad Mentor"

Lecture 40 When the Mentorship comes to an End

Section 8: Closing Reflections

Lecture 41 Becoming the Impactful Mentor

Team leaders seeking to better support people at work,Consultants, coaches and freelancers seeking to expand their mentorship skills,New Mentors interested in developing skills in order to find Mentees,Experienced Mentors who want a refresher course on best practices,Professionals in the corporate or entrepreneurial spheres who want to become a qualified Mentor