03 HOW TO BE A MENTOR [Using Your AIESEC Experience to make other AIESECers Grow]

What Are the Contents of this

guide?

1. Introducing the Guide flow (how are we going to work?)

2. What is a Mentor?

3. What does a Mentor do?

1. Activities

2. Be creative!!!

4. How do you select your LC mentors? (how do you

become one as well)

5. Scenarios:

1. Not enough people?

2. Too many people?

3. Who is mentoring my mentors?

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WHAT IS A MENTOR?

• Mentor is, as my

grandfather said

once. A person

that will develop

you assets… no,

actually I believe

that a mentor is a

person…

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Who are

You?

I’m a better

version of

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to replace

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LEAVE!!!!

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• It is better of this

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Lest get on with

the SHOW!!!

WHAT IS A

MENTOR?

MENTORING

Sometimes you feel alone in the organization…

Sometimes you need someone to share your dreams with, to help you figuring a way out on how to get there.

Most of us Stay in the organization because we find a person that help us doing that (Even without knowing it..

MENTORING

But mentoring is more structured.

Is more than just moments of chitchat, is a

way of making people grow in the

organization, feel connected with the

philosophy, and draw a line to where we

want to get.

‘Structured AIESEC friendship I might say’

WHAT IS A MENTOR?

• A mentor is a person. That’s the basic stuff.

Defining what a mentor is has become a big

issue for us at AIESEC in Colombia. Here is our

try:

• Mentor is a Person that follows and helps an

AIESEC member get on and grow in his-her

AIESEC Career. A person that will make the

person he-she is in charge of, go further than he

has gotten into (in AIESEC).

WHAT IS A MENTOR?

• Mentors keep track of a member career,

they can be members as well, but older

than the person they are mentoring

• The mentor is a concrete referral for the

member when he or she is planning his-

her AIESEC Career.

WHAT DOES

A MENTOR

DO?

WHAT DOES A MENTOR DO?

• Mentoring is actually really easy, just try to teach what you have already learned:

– Help the protégé (we will call the member that is being mentored a protégé from now on) build hi-her own vision of the world and what he-she wants to achieve while being in AIESEC.

– Encourage your protégé to build an AIESEC Career plan (Using the Mandala planning module, of course)

WHAT DOES A MENTOR DO?

• Always be available for the protégé,

answer questions, recommend and help

taking some decisions.

• Challenge the protégé, encourage him-her

to build his-her own opinions on different

issues.

• Support the protégé on any initiatives,

ideas the he-she is willing to develop.

HOW CAN I MAKE THIS HAPPEN?

There is a big set of activities that you can

do in order to achieve your goals as a

Mentor. The main goal is to keep your

protégé in AIESEC achieving results in all

the AIESEC Aspects possible.

What kind of activities can you do?

ACTIVITIES

• Meet with your protégé in order to set

expectations and the way you should

communicate. You must agree with your

protégé on what are the key issues to

work on and the concrete next steps on

your relation.

ACTIVITIES

• From time to time you can meet with your

protégé to talk about different issues, over a

beer can be a good idea, you can tell stories

about your AIESEC Time and de decisions you

took over the time, that would help your protégé

to be more conscious of his time in the

organization.

• Each time you meet with your protégé set up

your expectations for the meeting: what do you

want to achieve?

ACTIVITIES

• There are tons of activities: here is a flow

of activities you can do with your protégé,

the way to do the activity is open for you,

but you can have meetings with this

issues, enjoy

ACTIVITIES

VALUES,

COMPETENCES

AND ATTITUDES

GOAL SETTING,

DREAMS AND

EVALUATION.

PERSONAL

REFLECTION.

We will now work on

a set of issues

related to one of

these three topics,

you will build your

activities based on

that.

• Talk with your protégé about this issues, have meetings around:

–Defining your Values

–Get consciousness on your competences and Learning Needs (Do a personal SWOT)

–Attitudes: how are you going to act towards some issues?

Use Mandala Planning to set all this expectations and

Learning needs.

VALUES, COMPETENCES AND ATTITUDES

GOAL SETTING, DREAMS AND

EVALUATION.

• Talk with your protégé about this issues, have

meetings around: – What are your Dreams? What are the goals you want

to achieve in the organization?

– Where are you now? Where do you want to get in the near future? What is the vision of you in the long term?

– Evaluate where you are at each time, what do you need to do to achieve your goals?

Use The Mandala In this block of meetings!! It is quite important!

PERSONAL REFLECTION.

• Talk with your protégé about this issues,

have meetings around:

– What have you learned and achieved so far?

– How do you feel in the whole process?

– What do you want to re-plan?

– What new steps do you want to take?

Mandala is essential here!!!

COOL SESSIONS BROTHER!!!

Now, is there a way of making my mentoring process a little distinctive?

Yep, actually we suggest to make it very specific and concrete with every protégé you work with, really have a unique experience with them!!!

BE CREATIVE!!!

• Don’t make your meetings to formal,

Mentoring process is closer to a friendship

process than a boss-employee process.

• Meet in different places, over a beer,

somewhere away from the office

• Note: Mentoring is not a love Affair but

you should get close to your protégé.

BE CREATIVE!!!

• Talk about different issues when you meet, get to the point of the meeting but also discuss some other issues (world issues for example) the mentor is a source of Learning as well.

• If you are mentoring more than one person, do group meetings from time to time, a tea meeting for example to talk about world issues.

ACTIVITIES

There are zillions of ways to do mentoring,

the most important thing is the

achievements, if you ensure personal,

AIESEC and professional growth of the

person you are working with, then you

have done a good job.

SELECTING

YOUR LC

MENTORS

SELECTING YOUR LC MENTORS

• Selecting your mentors Is not a very complicated process.

• First you have to do a Mentor-to-be research:

– Look for recent Alumni

– Members that have more than 2 years in the organization

– Trainees.

– Reintegration SNs

SELECTING YOUR LC MENTORS

• Have a Mentor-to-be meeting, ask all the people

you have found to meet, then present them the

mentor program, tell them the reason why you

would like to have them as mentors for your LC

members.

• Use the CWPDT Mentor guide to concretely

explain the steps and responsibilities of

mentoring (you can find it in the Global

Organizational Change Community and

Global X Community.)

SELECTING YOUR LC MENTORS

• Have an LC meeting presenting the

mentors and do an activity where the

mentors get to know better your mentors,

allow the mentoring process to be

established freely, not imposed.

• Set Mentoring pairs and mentoring groups

depending of the amount of members and

mentors)

SELECTING YOUR LC MENTORS

• Only pick as mentors people that are willing to

give more time into this process, don’t put

people just because they look cool but don’t

really have the time (the president of the

company, the teacher that has classes all day,

ETC)

• Encourage being a Mentor as a part of your

AIESEC Individual Learning process (make

them write it down in their Mandala and then get

prepared on it.

HOW DO YOU BECOME A MENTOR?

• Becoming mentor is not a difficult process,

just take into your mind this little issues, if

you follow them ,you can call your self a

Mentor.

BECOMING A MENTOR

DO YOU HAVE BEING A

MENTOR IN YOUR

MANDALA PLAN?

HAVE YOU BEEN IN THE

ORGANISATION FOR

MORE THAN 2 YEARS

OR ARE YOU A

INCOMMING TRAINEE

OR REINTEGRATION

SN?

HAVE YOU MET WITH

YOUR LC EB IN ORDER

TO KNOW THE

AVAILABILITY OF THE

MENTOR PROGRAM IN

THE LC?

HAVE YOUMET THE LC

PEOPLE, FOUND OUT

WHAT ARE THEIR

INTERESTS?

BECOMING A MENTOR

HAVE YOU TALKED WITH AN LC MEMBER AND

LISTENED TO HIS-HER QUESTIONS?

HAVE YOU TALKED WITH AN LC MEMBER, TRAINEE

OR SN ABOUT BEING HIS-HER MENTOR?

ARE YOU MENTORING RIGHT

NOW? DO YOU HAVE A

PROTÉGÉ?

ESCENARIOS

I DON’T HAVE ENOUGH MENTORS

• Not having enough mentors is not a big problem,

here are some tips on what to do:

– Ask the group of mentors you have to mentor a group

meetings and pick a group of members with similar

background.

– Encourage all your members to become mentors,

also your SNs and Trainees. Your members won’t

become mentors immediately, but in the long term

you will have a bigger pool of mentors

I have too many mentors

• If having to few mentors was a problem, then having too many should be heaven, but don’t feel like in a carnival! Just assign one mentor per member, SN or trainee, don’t put two mentors or more per person. It is confusing.

• Mentors can wait, when you have more members, assign them.

Who is Mentoring My Mentors?

• Your mentors can have their own mentors as well, it depends on the learning interests they have:

– If is Alumnus, you can get another alumni to help him-her out.

– Make sure that all your SNs and Trainees are being mentored (and they can be a mentor as well)

– Your Old members that are active need to be mentored as well!!!

Mentoring is one

of the best ways

to implement

Learning in your

LC

You just need

to find the

people, train

them and meet

the LC

Have fun With your

Mentoring, see you in

the next presentation:

How to manage your LC

learning Information.

BYE!!!