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A guide for mentees: Possible Selves for Mentees

What Possible Selves is, how to fill it in and what happens next.

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What this guide covers

What this guide covers

What it is

Who you hope to be next year

You write who you hope to be, who you fear becoming, and what you do.

Next year, who do you hope to be?

Who I want to beWhat I do for it

Someone who leads a small project Ask to lead the next pilot

Someone the team asks for advice Write one short update for the team each Friday

Someone with free evenings What I do for it

Next year, who are you afraid of becoming?

Who I do not want to beHow I stay away from it

Someone who says yes to everything Check my week before taking new work

Which strategy will you start this week? Write one short update for the team each Friday

Why it helps

A hope needs a strategy

Next to each hope you write what you do for it, so it can start.

Up to four hopes each with what you do for it
Up to four fears and how you stay away
One strategy to start this week

Filling it in

Fifteen minutes, in three steps

Write your hopes, then your fears, then pick one strategy.

Write who you hope to be

Up to four, each with what you do for it.

Write who you fear becoming

Be honest, then add how you stay away from it.

Pick one strategy

The one you will start this week.

Write who you hope to be

Up to four, each with what you do for it.

Next year, who do you hope to be?

Who I want to beWhat I do for it

Someone who leads a small project Ask to lead the next pilot

Someone the team asks for advice Write one short update for the team each Friday

Someone with free evenings What I do for it

Next year, who are you afraid of becoming?

Who I do not want to beHow I stay away from it

Someone who says yes to everything Check my week before taking new work

Which strategy will you start this week? Write one short update for the team each Friday

Write who you fear becoming

Be honest, then add how you stay away from it.

Next year, who do you hope to be?

Who I want to beWhat I do for it

Someone who leads a small project Ask to lead the next pilot

Someone the team asks for advice Write one short update for the team each Friday

Someone with free evenings What I do for it

Next year, who are you afraid of becoming?

Who I do not want to beHow I stay away from it

Someone who says yes to everything Check my week before taking new work

Which strategy will you start this week? Write one short update for the team each Friday

Pick one strategy

The one you will start this week.

Possible SelvesSaved

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Before you send

Every step is filled in. Send answers

1Write who you hope to be

Next year, who do you hope to be?

Who I want to beWhat I do for it

Someone who leads a small project Ask to lead the next pilot

Someone the team asks for advice Write one short update for the team each Friday

Someone with free evenings What I do for it

Next year, who are you afraid of becoming?

Who I do not want to beHow I stay away from it

Someone who says yes to everything Check my week before taking new work

Which strategy will you start this week? Write one short update for the team each Friday

2Write who you fear becoming

Next year, who do you hope to be?

Who I want to beWhat I do for it

Someone who leads a small project Ask to lead the next pilot

Someone the team asks for advice Write one short update for the team each Friday

Someone with free evenings What I do for it

Next year, who are you afraid of becoming?

Who I do not want to beHow I stay away from it

Someone who says yes to everything Check my week before taking new work

Which strategy will you start this week? Write one short update for the team each Friday

3Pick one strategy

Possible SelvesSaved

Step 1 of 2

PreviousNext

Before you send

Every step is filled in. Send answers

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.

Tools to fill in (1)

Possible SelvesFrom Rachel Bennett To do See all

Stop whenever you like

Your answers are saved as you go.

Possible SelvesSaved

Step 1 of 2

PreviousNext

Before you send

Every step is filled in. Send answers

Check, then send

Before you send, you see any step left empty.

Possible SelvesSaved

Step 1 of 2

PreviousNext

Before you send

Every step is filled in. Send answers

1Find it on your home page

Tools to fill in (1)

Possible SelvesFrom Rachel Bennett To do See all

2Stop whenever you like

Possible SelvesSaved

Step 1 of 2

PreviousNext

Before you send

Every step is filled in. Send answers

3Check, then send

Possible SelvesSaved

Step 1 of 2

PreviousNext

Before you send

Every step is filled in. Send answers

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

Write it before you meet

Bring the hope that has no strategy yet; that is where to start.

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