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A guide for mentees A guide for mentees

How to set a goal your mentor can help with, and lead the relationship yourself.

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What this guide covers

What this guide covers

What this guide covers

Why clear goals work

Clear, hard goals beat doing your best

Specific, demanding goals lift performance more than vague ones, most clearly on simpler tasks.

0.77 Effect of specific, hard goals over “do your best” on simple tasks
0.41 The same effect on complex tasks Locke & Latham, American Psychologist, 2002

From wish to goal

Turn a wish into a goal

Name what you will do, how much, and by when.

  • Get better at presenting. A wish: nothing to check.
  • Present two leadership updates by March. A goal you can both track.

New skills

For a new skill, set learning goals

When the skill is new, aim to learn methods first, with checkpoints along the way.

Your agenda

Send the agenda yourself

Two days before, send at most three points so the hour goes where you need it.

Checking progress

Check the goal every meeting

Goals work better with feedback, so open each meeting with where you stand.

  • Goal two leadership updates by March
  • Done one update given
  • Next rehearse the second together
  • Help needed questions from senior leaders

Doing it on Mentornity

Start it on Mentornity

Your profile and your program’s matching decide who you work with.

Complete the welcome steps

Your answers brief your mentor and feed matching.

Choose or request a mentor

Depending on your program, you pick, request or get matched.

Fill in goal forms

Forms your program set up keep your goal on record.

Message your agenda

Send your three points before the meeting.

Complete the welcome steps

Your answers brief your mentor and feed matching.

Choose or request a mentor

Depending on your program, you pick, request or get matched.

Fill in goal forms

Forms your program set up keep your goal on record.

Message your agenda

Send your three points before the meeting.

Write your goal in one line

What, how much, by when: send it to your mentor before you meet.

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