A guide for mentees: Your Turn
How to bring your problem to a circle and help with others’.
What this guide covers
What this guide covers
What this guide covers
Give and get
Here you give and you get
Unlike a classic mentor, peers both give help and receive it.
- You help with questions and ideas
- You get help when it is your case
- You meet people more than one view
Your case
Bring your problem in two minutes
A clear case gets better questions, so prepare it before you come.
- My situation is… one sentence
- I have tried… one or two things
- I would like… ideas, a decision, a sounding board
Others’ cases
Ask, do not fix
In the questions round, an open question helps more than your answer.
- What matters most to you here?
- What have you tried?
- What is stopping you?
Taking ideas
Take ideas without defending
Write every idea down; you choose later, not in the room.
- That won’t work because… Closes the door on the next idea.
- Thanks, tell me more. Keeps the ideas coming.
One step
Leave with one step
Say what you will do and by when, so the circle can ask next time.
- I will one small action
- By a day before the next circle
- I will tell the circle how it went
Privacy
Keep their stories in the circle
Share what you learned, never whose story it was.
- Ideas you can use
- Questions you liked
- Names and details
Mentornity in Claude and ChatGPT
Use Mentornity from Claude or ChatGPT
Ask in your own words; your assistant plans meetings, fills in tools and drafts messages.
Connect it once
Add Mentornity in Claude, ChatGPT or another MCP app, then sign in.
Ask in your own words
Plan meetings, fill in a tool or form, find a mentor, reply.
A preview before every change
The assistant shows what will happen; nothing changes until you say yes.
Disconnect any time
It sees only what you see; Settings shows what it did recently.
Connect it once
Add Mentornity in Claude, ChatGPT or another MCP app, then sign in.
Ask in your own words
Plan meetings, fill in a tool or form, find a mentor, reply.
A preview before every change
The assistant shows what will happen; nothing changes until you say yes.
Disconnect any time
It sees only what you see; Settings shows what it did recently.
Your goals and the Academy
Set goals, learn, earn a badge
Track your goals in My development and learn in Mentornity Academy, in your language.
Set your goals
Write what you want to reach and rate it at each check-in.
Badge courses for mentors
Seven skills with short practice, then a 20-question exam.
Guides for mentors and mentees
Research-based guides, a deck for every tool, and decks for your program.
Add your badge to LinkedIn
Pass the exam and share the badge page, valid for two years.
Set your goals
Write what you want to reach and rate it at each check-in.
Badge courses for mentors
Seven skills with short practice, then a 20-question exam.
Guides for mentors and mentees
Research-based guides, a deck for every tool, and decks for your program.
Add your badge to LinkedIn
Pass the exam and share the badge page, valid for two years.
Sources
The research behind this presentation
- Kram, K. E. & Isabella, L. A. (1985) Mentoring alternatives: The role of peer relationships in career development Academy of Management Journal, 28(1), 110-132
- Higgins, M. C. & Kram, K. E. (2001) Reconceptualizing mentoring at work: A developmental network perspective Academy of Management Review, 26(2), 264-288
- Huizing, R. L. (2012) Mentoring together: A literature review of group mentoring Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 20(1), 27-55
Write your two-minute case
Situation, what you tried, what you want: three lines before the next circle.