Course Outline

What is Mentoring & Why it Matters

  • What Mentors do
  • The enabling Mentor
  • Mentoring today
  • What does mentoring look like?
  • The power of relationships in our lives
  • Mentors care beyond the work
  • A mentor goes above and beyond

Creating a Mentoring Relationship

  • Stages of development
  • Where to begin
  • The Mentoring Match
  • Determining Mentee expectations
  • Developing a partnership
  • Guiding principles
  • Creating a Mentor/Mentee Agreement
  • Two-Way Mentoring / Reverse Mentoring

Maintaining a Mentoring Relationship

  • Adopting a change attitude
  • Managing change
  • Coping mechanisms
  • Mirroring
  • Validation
  • It's rarely black or white
  • Progressive adaptation

Navigating the Mentoring Relationship

  • Effective mentoring tools
  • Shifting context
  • Active listening
  • Naming feelings
  • Listening for motivation
  • Constructive confrontation
  • Information that has positive impact
  • Giving permission
  • Being genuinely curious

Fine Tuning & Transitioning the Mentoring Relationship

  • Fine Tuning and transitioning
  • Potential pitfall one: giving criticism
  • Potential pitfall two: giving advice
  • Potential Pitfall three: trying to rescue
  • Transitioning the relationship

What Is Decision Making?

  • What are the characteristics of a good and bad decision-maker?
  • How much analysis do you need to do?
  • What is involved in decision-making process?

How to Choose Actions

  • How to choose between a set of options where each has its own advantages and disadvantages
  • How to make a quantifiable comparison between alternative options
  • How to systematically compare related options
  • How to systematically compare unrelated options

How to Analyse the Impact of Your Actions

  • How to use a measure to compare pros and cons
  • How to carry out a force field analysis
  • How to compare the benefits versus the costs of taking different options
  • How to systematically analyse a cascade of decisions where one leads to another
  • How to visualise your decision-making process
  • What tools can you use to increase your creativity when making decisions so you can come up with more options?

 How to Decide in Groups

  • What are the implications of deciding in groups?
  • Why thinking in groups can sometimes be so frustrating?
  • What can you do to increase the efficiency of your meetings?
  • How to prevent dominant people from take over the meeting or the decision making process
  • How to encourage newcomers or those who are shy to present their views without fear of criticism
  • What tools can you use to streamline the process of group decision-making?
  • How to avoid groupthink, where participants are so eager to reach a decision without causing conflicts that they end up choosing a wrong solution

What Are the Principles of Decision Making?

  • Do you always have to make sure you get a better bargain than others?
  • What are the philosophical implications of complexity when making decisions?
  • What is the best way to plan your course of action and what principles you need to be aware of?
  • What can you learn from game theory when making decisions?
 14 Hours

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