Answering some of your questions:
How can I benefit from being a mentor or a mentee?
What is reverse mentoring and how will it help me?
What should I do to prepare for the event to ensure I get the best outcome from attending?
2. 5 Benefits of having a mentor
1. Build your confidence
1. Increase your emotional intelligence
i. Self-awareness
ii. Resilience
iii. Self esteem
1. Accelerate your learning
2. Widen your thinking on possible career pathways
1. Set goals and achieve better outcomes
3. As Estée Lauder’s CEO, Fabrizio Freda, noted, the company
“had come to a place where the future could not be informed by the past”
and therefore decided to implement a reverse mentoring program.
5 Benefits of mentoring and reverse mentoring
1) Experience beyond your peer group and or organisation
2) Shaping future leaders and empowering current leaders
3) Diversity of thought
4) Developing a professional network
5) Building confidence and self-awareness
Why reverse mentoring?
5. Elevator pitch
You have 1 min to make an impression – to convey who you are and to connect
with others
Because if you only have a minute to express your purpose then it is helpful to
have clarity on what you need from any encounter
To express what you need in one minute you must take time to work through
Your thoughts, ideas and ambitions.
If you think your elevator pitch through you will have a better chance of really
being present in the moment rather that worrying about how you come across.
A good elevator pitch is not cast in stone, it reflects who you are and what
impact you want to have so it can be both flexible and consistent
Why is it important to create an elevator pitch?
6. Elevator pitch example
I work with organisations and individuals to help them make the most of their
resources.
I give them insights to where to put their energy in terms of developing their
natural talents and minimising the behaviours that block them.
I achieve that that through a combination of using profiling tools and creative
thinking to design and deliver bespoke programmes which I then facilitate
using a coaching style approach.
My simple motto is to change the world one person at a time
7. Clearly defined expectations: Each person needs to be very clear on their
expectations.
Agreed upon rules: Both mentor and mentees must be fully committed to
the mentoring relationship and agree upon the rules that will be followed.
Openness to learn: In a reverse mentoring relationship, both parties act in
the capacity of a mentor as well as a mentee; so they must both “genuinely
want to learn from and share with the other.”
Trust: Reverse mentoring requires the trust of each party. The goal is to
“push one another outside of their comfort zones and try new ways of thinking,
working and being.”
Transparency: Mentors and mentees must be open with their feelings and
with what they are thinking. They must be able to overcome differences in
communication style and be open to seeing situations from different angles.
Guidelines for a mentoring relationship to work
8. Mentoring framework that we will encourage you to use
Stokers – the stoker is the person on the back of the tandem
S Subject – what would you like to talk about in this session?
t Time – how much time have we agreed to?
o What is your objective or goal for the session?
k How we will know we have been successful?
e How much energy are you willing to invest in this subject?
r What role would you like me to play? To be challenging? Devils advocate?
s Ok lets get started
