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Mentor / Coach Guide: Inner Council

How to send the Inner Council, read the answers and talk them through.

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What this guide covers

What this guide covers

What this guide covers

What this guide covers

What it is

An inner council votes on a dilemma

Your mentee lets eight inner advisors vote between two options, one at a time.

When to send it

Send it when they feel torn

It suits a choice between two options that keeps going round.

  • Two clear options stay or go, this or that
  • Going in circles the same pros and cons again
  • Head and heart differ to hear each voice in turn

An honest frame

Distance makes reasoning wiser

Looking at one’s own dilemma from outside makes reasoning wiser (Grossmann and Kross, 2014).

  • One voice at a time the loudest does not decide alone
  • Future you has a seat a view from ten years on
  • Unsure is allowed it shows what is still missing

Sending it

Send it from your matching

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

Open your matching

Choose Assign a tool and find the Inner Council.

Try it as your mentee

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

Add a short message

Your mentee sees it on their home page and Tools.

Open your matching

Choose Assign a tool and find the Inner Council.

Try it as your mentee

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

Add a short message

Your mentee sees it on their home page and Tools.

Reading the answers

Look where the voices split

The vote count matters less than which voices disagree.

  • Votes A, B and unsure
  • Voices that split where they are torn
  • Weighs most the voice they trust, and its vote

Questions to ask

One question, then a follow-up

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

  • Which advisors split? What is each one protecting? then: can both be protected?
  • Is the voice that weighs most for you also the one that voted most clearly? then: what does that tell you?
  • What would help the unsure advisors make up their mind? then: how could you find it out?

Feedback that helps

Talk about the answers, not the person

Feedback can backfire, so keep it on the answers and the next step.

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

What is missing

Turn unsure votes into a next step

Find out what the unsure advisors need, then plan one step to learn it.

  • What they need a fact, a talk, some time
  • Who can help someone who has been there
  • By when a date before deciding

After the meeting

Keep the follow-up on Mentornity

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

Read it at a glance

The votes, the split voices and the heaviest voice are summed up.

Add next steps

Write what happens, who does it and by when.

Ask them to fill it in again

Earlier answers are kept, so you see what changed.

Read it at a glance

The votes, the split voices and the heaviest voice are summed up.

Add next steps

Write what happens, who does it and by when.

Ask them to fill it in again

Earlier answers are kept, so you see what changed.

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.

Send it when a choice drags on

Pick a mentee torn between two options and send it this week.