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A guide for mentors: Values Cards for Mentors

How to send Values Cards, read the top five and talk them through.

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What this guide covers

What this guide covers

What this guide covers

What it is

69 cards, three piles, top five

Your mentee sorts value cards by how important each is, then ranks their top five.

When to send it

Send it early, or before a choice

It helps while you get to know each other, or when a decision is near.

  • Getting to know each other the platform suggests it for a start
  • A decision ahead a job, a move, a project
  • Pulled two ways when work and wants do not match

An honest frame

Their words, not a type

The cards are adapted from a public domain card sort, and nothing is scored.

  • No scores nothing to compare with others
  • No types it does not label anyone
  • Their order only they rank their values

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 Values Cards.

Try it as your mentee

Sort a few cards yourself; nothing is saved or sent.

Add a short message

Your mentee sees it on their home page and Tools.

Open your pairing

Choose Assign a tool and find Values Cards.

Try it as your mentee

Sort a few cards yourself; nothing is saved or sent.

Add a short message

Your mentee sees it on their home page and Tools.

Reading the answers

Read the order, then the piles

The top five matter most, but the very important pile shows what else counts.

  • Top five in the order they chose
  • Very important cards how many, and which missed the top five
  • Their own words why the first value leads, where values clash

Questions to ask

Ask about their week, not the list

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

  • Which of your top five shows most in your week now? then: and which shows least?
  • Where do two of your values pull against each other? then: when did you last feel it?
  • What is one decision this list could help you with? then: what would your first value choose?

Feedback that helps

Do not rank their values for them

Say what you notice, then let your mentee say what it means.

  • Name what you see "Honesty leads, comfort is not in the pile"
  • Ask before you explain what does it mean to them?
  • Skip the judging no value is better than another

One step

Turn the first value into one act

Their answer to the last question can be the step, so agree when it happens.

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

After the meeting

Keep it all on Mentornity

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

Read it at a glance

The top five and the very important count are summed up.

Add next steps

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

Ask to fill it again

Earlier answers are kept, so you can compare two sorts.

Read it at a glance

The top five and the very important count are summed up.

Add next steps

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

Ask to fill it again

Earlier answers are kept, so you can compare two sorts.

Send the cards before a big choice

Pick a mentee facing a decision and send the cards before you meet.

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