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A guide for mentees: Decision Balance for Mentees

What the Decision Balance is, how to fill it in and what happens next.

What this guide covers

What this guide covers

What it is

Weigh one decision on paper

You list what doing it would bring, for you and for people close to you.

Why it helps

See every side at once

Writing it all down puts every consideration in view at the same time.

  • Not a verdict the totals do not decide for you
  • Your weights 1 matters a little, 5 a lot
  • Clearer, not pushed use it to see, not to force

Filling it in

Fifteen minutes, one area at a time

Write the decision, then the gains and losses, then how it would feel.

Name the decision

Write it as one thing to do, like taking a job.

List gains and losses

For you and people close to you, weighted 1 to 5.

Add how it would feel

How you would see yourself, and how others would see it.

Name the decision

Write it as one thing to do, like taking a job.

List gains and losses

For you and people close to you, weighted 1 to 5.

Add how it would feel

How you would see yourself, and how others would see it.

On Mentornity

Find it, fill it in, send it

Your mentor’s tool waits on your home page until you send it.

Find it on your home page

Tools to fill in shows what was sent, and by whom.

Stop whenever you like

Your answers are saved as you go.

Check, then send

Before you send, you see any step left empty.

Find it on your home page

Tools to fill in shows what was sent, and by whom.

Stop whenever you like

Your answers are saved as you go.

Check, then send

Before you send, you see any step left empty.

What happens next

You talk it through together

Your mentor reads your answers, comments and agrees next steps with you.

  • Only you two program admins do not see the answers
  • Comments on any part of it
  • Next steps who does what, by when
  • Still editable change answers after sending

Fill it in before you meet

Bring the heaviest item on your list to the meeting.

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