Mentoring helps you view the organization with a fresh eye toward its functions, politics, and culture. You may, for example, gain a new understanding of how people from different generations or backgrounds approach their work and careers. Also, many mentors say they get personal satisfaction and fulfillment from their mentoring relationships. If you're feeling burned out or cynical, mentoring can give you and your career a boost.
The benefits of mentoring are well known: It gives less experienced employees valuable feedback, insight, and support while passing down wisdom and institutional knowledge.
1. Get trained to be a Peer mentor
Establishing Psychological Safety
Do not Judge
Empathize: Identification with and understanding of another's situation, feelings, and motives
Acceptance is the key
Leading by example
Being Assertive
When we judge, we lack empathy. When we judge, we see others from our point of view, completely missing their point of view. Have a balanced approach. To mentor, to coach, you must look into their world, for that you have to give up your assessments and opinions. You listen with complete attention if you want to build trust with your mentee.
2. Assess yourself before you start Peer mentorship training and after you have completed
3. Watch Conscious Business
The knowledge shared by Fred Kofman in these videos brings you many aspects of conscious working. Also, the content will help you mentor/coach in different situations and dealing with people.
4. Once trained, Update:
Update the details of which topics you would want to mentor for, in the Peer mentorship Cockpit.
Mention the number of hours you are available each week/month to mentor.
Create your ReadMe Doc and update in the Peer Mentorship Cockpit
Take this test https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
Once you have a mentee, share with them your ReadMe Doc and personality type.
Ask your mentee to take the Personality type test and share their result with you. This will help understand each other better and hence set clear expectations.
5. Read How do I mentor someone
6. How to initiate Peer mentorship?
Steps to initiate and execute Peer mentoring:
Set up a call with the mentee and understand the specifics of the mentoring requirement
Understand how many hours of coaching is required and schedule accordingly, decide mutually on the frequency of calls (if more than one meeting is required)
Create content for coaching in a Gdoc or Confluence
Create a ticket in Jira for mentoring
Record, log, notes in the Jira ticket
Once coaching is complete, update in Mentee requirement Tab (in Peer mentorship sheet) as Done with the date (with comments if any) and close the Jira ticket
Regularly check the Peer mentorship cockpit, someone could have mentioned you for a new mentoring request
On day 1 of each month, update about your availability to mentor for the month and hours, you can invest.