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?
Testimonials (4)
Explains well the topic.
Gilbert Pineda - Quartzelec Ltd (Philippines Branch)
Course - Leadership 101
Clearly explained theory combined with trainer enthusiastically recounting his past experience, making the concepts much more relatable / memorable. Friendly and passionate trainer.
Jacob Tan - Singapore Management University
Course - Leadership Development for Engineers
Info about RPA, AI and IoT.
Jubilee Petil - Accenture Inc.
Course - Digital Transformation: Disrupting the Common Delivery of the Common Business Landscape
I generally was benefit from the interaction and flexibility.