Welcome the participants as new mentors and protégés.
Answer any questions they may have about the program or their responsibilities
now that they have had time to learn more about the program and read the handouts.
Review mentor/protégé application Critique Forms.

In today’s session we will:

Learn how to build a successful, trusting, and rewarding
mentoring partnership.
Demonstrate the necessity of trust in the mentoring partnership.
Define the rules for effective and successful mentoring.
Define the criteria for becoming a mentor or protégé.
Discover protégé learning preferences.
Discover mentor mentoring preferences.

In-class exercise:

Blindfold/Trust.

Handout and In-class exercise:

PROTÉGÉ -  
Participating as a Mentor or Protégé – Protégé’s Module and Learning Preferences -
discover your most effective learning preference and discuss with your mentor.
MENTOR -   
Participating as a Mentor or Protégé – Mentor’s Modules and Learning Preferences -
discover your mentoring preference and discuss with your protégé.

Video:

Relationship Dimension
This video segment shows an initial meeting between a mentor and protégé. The protégé arrives prepared to discuss what he expects to gain from this partnership and what personal goal he expects to achieve. The mentor listens carefully and tries to comprehend the protégé’s feelings.
She tries to avoid judgmental comments and seeks to acquire a deeper and genuine
understanding of her new protégé.

HOMEWORK: Mentor/Protégé responsibilities:

Repeat trust exercise with mentor leading protégé and protégé leading mentor.
Principles of Adult Mentoring Inventory. Take mentoring inventory and review results with protégé.
One informal meeting between mentor and protégé.
Prepare to discuss what you expect to gain from the partnership.
What do you expect from yourself as a mentor or protégé and what do you expect from each other?

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In today’s session we will:

Demonstrate the need to establish goal areas.
Establish and correctly write work-related goals and objectives.
Discuss the mentor’s roles when advising the protégé.

Video:

Informative Dimension
This video segment shows a mentor and protégé discussing a protégé learning plan. Although this session covers a lot of ground, the mentor accomplished the basic goal of an informative session that is to obtain facts, clarify ideas, and identify immediate issues.

Handout:

Elements of a learning plan. Discuss the elements of a learning plan. Encourage protégés to complete a learning plan before meeting to establish goals. The objective of the learning plan is to give the mentor a detailed profile of the protégé. This will help the mentor develop an accurate and direct course to he achievement of stated goals.

HOMEWORK: Mentor/Protégé responsibilities:

Meeting between mentor and protégé to discuss the learning plan and set goals and objectives.
Complete a mentoring agreement.

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In today’s session we will:

Encourage setting goals for excellent performance.
Review Goals and Objectives.
Discuss the abilities and resources required to achieve goals.
Propose ideas and clarify approaches to attain career, training, and educational
objectives.
Discuss emotional intelligence in the mentoring relationship.

In-class exercise:

Peak Performance.



Video

Facilitative Dimension
The general objective of this segment is to demonstrate the significance of posing realistic alternatives for expanding the base of career, training, and educational interests that are explored in the evolving mentoring relationship.

In-class exercise:

Review goals and objectives with peers – make suggestions, comments and formalize.
Review goals and objectives with your mentor or protégé - make suggestions, comments, formalize, and agree.
Review goals and objectives with mentors/protégés and managers (if he/she is not the mentor already).
Revise goals and objectives – per comments.

HOMEWORK: Mentor/Protégé responsibilities:

Meeting between mentor and protégé to discuss revised goals and objectives.

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In today’s session we will:

Review the definition of mentoring.
Evaluate the mentor/train your replacement program.
Discuss further responsibilities of the mentor/protégé.

In-class exercise:

Fishbowl

Handout:

Complete program evaluation form to obtain feedback on the program.

Video:

Employee Vision Dimension

Mentor/Protégé responsibilities:

Continue progress of goals and objectives toward timeline.
As the official mentoring relationship comes to a close, mentor and protégé should review and reflect on what the protégé has achieved – and still plans to achieve on his/her own.

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