The Mentor's Toolkit for Careers

A comprehensive guide to leading conversations about career planing

Ann Rolfe

• Publisher: Mentoring Works
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9780980356472
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Practical and easy to read, this handbook discusses the issues and concerns that impact on today's mentees. It shows how tocreate a non-threatening environment that allows the mentee to speak candidly and how to build trust. It explains the importance of strengths development to help people realise their potential.

The book provides an in-depth description of a four-step method for leading a mentoring conversation focussed on career, with examples of questions, thought-starters, and discussion topics.

The toolkit includes over 50 guides, templates and activities for mentors to use with their mentee, and access to the video training programs Tools for Mentoring on career planning.

· The Changing Career Scene

· Career Phases

· Work/Life Balance

· Mentoring: A Safe Space

· A Framework for the Conversation

· Develop Talents and Strengths Where Are You Now?

· Where Do You Want to Be?

· How Might You Get There?

· How's it Going Now?

· Tools and Guides Activities that draw out information that mentees need to make decisions. Most have discussion questions for reflective conversation after completion.

1

Introduction and Overview

As a mentor, you might have career conversations with someone who wants to:

• Develop: build their capabilities, find ways to be better at what they do, enjoy their work more and have a more satisfying career.
• Move: gain knowledge, skills and experience to advance, get a better or different job.
• Change: do something completely different for a living.

It’s a big responsibility because the mentee must make important decisions that have consequences on their lives, not just their livelihoods. Your job as a mentor is to ensure that they make informed decisions that are right for them.

I packed this book with resources to help you. It incorporates information and activities I have shared in workshops and webinars over my 30+ years experience in adult learning, career development and mentor training.

You can download printable versions of all the checklists and activities here: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/anzljazhx3

You and your mentee can access Tools For Mentoring a self-paced career-planning course of nine short videos online (included with the purchase of this book) here: http://mentoring-works.com/tools-for-mentoring/

Use the Password AMTCC21

If you want further assistance to develop your mentoring skills you may wish to purchase my book Mentoring Mindset Skills and Tools. Details here: http://mentoring-works.com/mentoring-mindset-skills-and-tools/

Or, take a look at the Mentor Master Classes video and ebook package here: http://mentoring-works.com/mentor-master-class-self-learning-package/

2

Tools & Guides List

You may have your own preferred sources, or your organisation may have additional resources for self-assessment or psychometric instruments. Use them as well, or instead of, the ones I’ve provided.

Guides

• Quick Tips
• A Mentoring Code
• Pre-Meeting Checklist
• Post-Meeting Checklist
• First Meeting Agenda
• Review Meeting Worksheet
• Mentoring Evaluation Questions

Activities

1. Focus for Mentoring
2. Your Career Path to Date
3. Career Motivation
4. Where Am I Now?
5. Heroes Hall of Fame
6. Three-Dimensional Analysis
7. Values Discovery
8. Meeting Values
9. Achievements
10. Strengths Discovery
11. Strengths 30 Day Challenge
12. Write a Personal Mission Statement
13. Skills Audit
14. Functional Skills Checklist
15. Personal Attributes Checklist
16. Turn Personal Attributes into Skills
17. Transferrable Skills
18. Motivated Skills
19. Analyse Your Capabilities
20. Career Portfolio Checklist
21. Areas for Development
22. Deal With Your Inner Critic
23. Self-critique to Self-Improvement
24. Update Beliefs About Yourself
25. Seven Career Moves
26. Moving Up Checklist
27. Lateral Move Checklist
28. Moving Down Checklist
29. Moving Out Checklist
30. Don’t Move – Develop
31. Don’t Move – Explore
32. Career Transformation
33. Options Exploration
34. Career Aim

You can download a printable PDF of all guides and activities to share with your mentee https://dl.bookfunnel.com/anzljazhx3

Online Learning Modules (included at no extra cost)

Tools for Mentoring is a self-paced career-planning course is made up of nine short (10-15 minute) videos and worksheets that you or your mentee can access anytime here:

http://mentoring-works.com/tools-for-mentoring/

Use the Password AMTCC21

Other Suggested Activities

Online Strengths Assessment

The instrument I recommend for discovering talents a...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• 1. Introduction and Overview
• 2. Tools & Guides List
• 3. Mentoring for Career Overview
• I. Career in Context
• II. The Mentoring Conversation
• III. Career Conversations
• IV. Tools and Guides
• Online Video Modules
• Reccommended Reading
• References
• About the Author