These are the slides for a free online course (www.udemy.com/mentoring) that provides essential wisdom & tools that help you start and succeed as a mentor. In this course you will find: 1. Overview of main areas for mentoring opportunities. 2. Essential qualities of a good mentor. 3. Structure for mentoring meetings. 4. Structure for GROW model conversations. 5. Framework for sharing your experience through storytelling. 6. Tips to motivate your mentee to follow through and get results. In bonus section you will find: + Printable GROW model structure worksheet. + Goalsetting worksheet. + Powerful questions for mentoring conversations. Take this course if you are planning to become a volunteer mentor in your organization or a youth program and you are looking for information on how to structure and hold mentoring meetings. This course is presented by Harald Lepisk (http://www.haraldlepisk.com) and it is available for free at https://www.udemy.com/mentoring/

1. Mentor for Impact
Essential tools & wisdom
to start as a mentor

2. Harald Lepisk www.inspiratsioon.ee
MENTOR FOR IMPACT
Harald Lepisk
www.haraldlepisk.com
Essentials to succeed as a mentor

3. Mentor for Impact
•Why the world needs mentors?
•What makes a great mentor?
•How to structure mentoring meetings?
•GROW model structure for mentoring.
•How to pass on my experience as a mentor?
•How to get the mentee to follow through?

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Who is a mentor?
Mentor promotes change in the
mentee, helping the person towards
a new vision of what is possible.

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Why the world needs mentors?
Lack of great role models
Unemployment
Entrepreneurship gap
Constant change

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What makes a great ment0r?
Live what you teach
Care
Listen
Empower independence

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Empower people to
find and apply their
brilliance.

8. Questions to discuss at your first meeting
1. What do you want mentoring for?
2. When do we know we have succeeded?
3. What do you expect from the mentor?
4. What do I expect from a mentee?
5. How do we prefer to hold the meetings?
6. How often should we meet?

9. How to structure mentoring meetings?
1. What´s new and good?
2. What do you want to focus on today?
3. GROW conversation
4. Creating accountability

10. Mentoring with GROW model
1. Goal - What do you really want?
2. Reality - What are you already doing?
3. Opportunities - What can you do?
4. Will - What are you going to do?

11. Goal – What do you really want?
•What do you want to change?
•What really matters to you? Why is it
important for you?
• How will you know that you have
achieved that goal?
Clarify the goal or outcome your partner wants to achieve.

12. Reality – Where are you now?
•What is your current situation? What
has contributed to your success so far?
• What do you think is holding you back
from achieving that goal?
•What have you learned from these
experiences?
Map the current situation and find what works.

13. Opportunities – What can you do?
• In which ways can you achieve that goal?
• If anything was possible, what would you do?
• How other people have solved it? Who could
help you?
• What would be the effective way to do it?
Discover options, strategies and opportunities that are
available for reaching that goal.

14. Will – What are you going to do?
• What kind of action are you going to take? By
what time will you do it?
• What kind of obstacles you may face? In which
ways can you overcome those obstacles?
• “You mentioned doing ________. What would
commit you to do that?
• Which specific step will you take today or this
week to move closer to your goal?
Define what needs to be done and by what time. Is there
enough passion and will?

15. Mentoring with GROW model
1. Goal - What do you really want?
2. Reality - What are you already doing?
3. Opportunities - What can you do?
4. Will - What are you going to do?

16. Storytelling
Great story is:
Emotional
Meaningful
Personal
Positive
Elements of a story:
Set the scene & characters
Conflict
Resolution
Change in character
Key message

17. Getting the mentee to follow through
1. Is there clarity of what to do and how to
get it done?
2. Is there certainty why it needs to be
done?
3. Is there sufficient time and resources?
4. Do the habits support getting things
done?

18. Tips for getting things done
1. Clear promise: what results will be
attained by which deadline?
2. Tiny steps: splitting big goals into
smaller steps.
3. Triggers: using existing habits to
remind and adopt new ones.
4. Ground habits: prioritizing most
important habits and activities.

19. Find a way
to bring a piece
of your dream
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