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A guide for mentors: Closing and Celebration for Mentors

How to send Closing and Celebration, read the answers and end the mentorship well.

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What this guide covers

What this guide covers

What this guide covers

What it is

Look back, name it, say thanks

Your mentee marks each goal, names what they gained and writes a note of thanks.

When to send it

Send it before the last meeting

A planned ending lets you both see what changed and part on good terms.

  • Before the last meeting a week ahead is enough
  • The end of a program when the pairing closes
  • One of you moves on a new role, a new city

An honest frame

An ending, not a final grade

Partly and not yet are honest answers, and both are worth talking about.

  • The goals from the start from the working agreement, if you made one
  • Three honest answers achieved, partly or not yet
  • Part of the mentorship the MENTOR practice guide counts the ending in

Sending it

Send it from your pairing

It takes a minute, and your mentee gets an email.

Open your pairing

Choose Assign a tool and find Closing and Celebration.

Try it as your mentee

Fill it in yourself first; nothing is saved or sent.

Add a short message

Say you will go through it at your last meeting.

Open your pairing

Choose Assign a tool and find Closing and Celebration.

Try it as your mentee

Fill it in yourself first; nothing is saved or sent.

Add a short message

Say you will go through it at your last meeting.

Reading the answers

Read the gains before the results

What they gained often lasts longer than the goals they reached.

  • Goals achieved and the ones partly there
  • What they gained a skill, a habit, a contact, a view
  • Their next steps what carries on without you

Questions to ask

Ask for the story, not the score

People who ask follow-up questions are liked more (Huang and others, 2017).

  • Which moment would you tell a friend about? then: why that one?
  • What will you keep doing on your own? then: what could get in the way?
  • Do you want to stay in touch, and how? then: how often feels right?

Feedback that helps

Name the work, not the person

Feedback can backfire, so speak about what they did and what changed.

1 in 3 Over a third of feedback effects lowered performance in one large review Kluger and DeNisi, 1996

One step

Plan their first step alone

Plans in the form "if this happens, then I do that" help people act.

94 Tests found that if-then plans help people reach their goals Gollwitzer and Sheeran, 2006

After the meeting

Close it on Mentornity

The answers, your comments and the next steps stay in one place.

Read it at a glance

Goals achieved and their next steps are summed up.

Add next steps

Write what will be done, by whom and by when.

Mark it as discussed

Close the loop once you have talked it through.

Read it at a glance

Goals achieved and their next steps are summed up.

Add next steps

Write what will be done, by whom and by when.

Mark it as discussed

Close the loop once you have talked it through.

End on a clear, good note

Send it a week before your last meeting and bring your own thanks.

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