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A guide for mentors: Monthly Update for Mentors

How to ask for the Monthly Update, read it and talk it through.

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What this guide covers

What this guide covers

What this guide covers

What it is

One page, once a month

Your mentee reports goals, one key number, a win, a difficulty and what they need.

When to send it

Start it in the first month

Its value is the trend, and the chart starts with the second update.

  • From the start the first month sets the baseline
  • Before each meeting read it first, then meet
  • When meetings drift back to goals and numbers

An honest frame

A habit, not a report card

Founders advised to set goals and get frequent feedback grew more (Chatterji and others, 2019).

  • Missed is allowed it is a reason to talk
  • Their key number they choose what matters
  • Same questions monthly so months compare

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 Monthly Update.

Try it as your mentee

Fill in a sample month first; nothing is saved or sent.

Add a short message

Agree the day each month it should reach you.

Open your pairing

Choose Assign a tool and find Monthly Update.

Try it as your mentee

Fill in a sample month first; nothing is saved or sent.

Add a short message

Agree the day each month it should reach you.

Reading the answers

Read the asks first

The asks show where you can help this week, so start there.

  • Goals done done, partly or missed, last month
  • Since last month the change in their key number
  • Asks what they need, in their words

Questions to ask

Ask, then ask once more

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

  • Why did the missed goals slip? then: what would you change?
  • Is this still the number that matters most? then: what would replace it?
  • Which ask can be met this week? then: who else could help?

Feedback that helps

Missed goals are information, not failure

Ask what got in the way, and keep the talk on next month.

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

One step

Meet one ask before the next update

An ask you meet shows up next month as a goal done.

  • Pick one ask the one you can meet
  • Set a date before the next update
  • Check it next month in the new update

After the meeting

Keep it all on Mentornity

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

Read it at a glance

Goals done and the asks are summed up.

Add next steps

Write who meets each ask, and by when.

Ask to fill it again

Each month is kept, and the chart grows with every update.

Read it at a glance

Goals done and the asks are summed up.

Add next steps

Write who meets each ask, and by when.

Ask to fill it again

Each month is kept, and the chart grows with every update.

Ask for the first update this week

Agree a day each month and read the update before you meet.

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