purpose-driven mentoring: how to find, pick, and create powerful mentor relationships

PURPOSE DRIVEN MENTORING

How to Find, Pick, and Create Powerful Mentor Relationships

Saturday, October 17, 20153:30 pm-5:05 pm

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Purpose Driven MentoringHow to find, pick and create powerful mentoring relationships

Learning Objective: Assess successful mentoring techniques

Mentoring is a mutually beneficial practice that provides opportunities both for mentor and mentee, as well as pay

dividends for employers. Corporations have discovered that the act of implementing strategic mentoring results in great short

and long term value. Mentoring creates collaborations, bonds, and buy-in like no other relationship process. This seminar will

help you engage, find and benefit from mentoring programs.

Purpose Driven Mentoring: How to find, pick and create powerful mentoring relationships October 17, 2015

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Learning Objectives Identify strategic mentoring solutions

Examine the benefit of reverse mentoring

Explore successful networking strategies that connect people

Examine mentoring activities and suggestions that enrich the experience

Explore ways to identify and pair successful mentoring matches.


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Denise EvansVice PresidentWomen & Diversity B2B MarketingIBM Corporation

Stephen DoyleDirector, Product Validation & Materials Engineering, Meritor

Lauren WhiteMechanical EngineerNaval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)United States Navy

Purpose Driven Mentoring

PanelistsModerator

Meghan KahnManager, Diversity & InclusionAerotek

Purpose Driven MentoringHow to find, pick and create powerful mentoring relationships

What: is mentoring

Why: benefits of mentoring

How: to find / select Topics

Mentors / Mentees

Venue

How: to create success Mutual Respect

Be vulnerable / genuine

Agreement


How is Mentoring Defined?

“A personal developmental relationship in which a more experienced

or more knowledgeable person helps to guide a less experienced or

less knowledgeable person. The mentor may be older or younger,

but possess a certain area of expertise. It is a learning and

development partnership between someone with vast experience

and someone who wants to learn.”


Benefits of Mentoring

Benefits of Mentoring

1. Employee Career Development2. High Potential Development3. Diversity Training4. Reverse Mentoring5. Knowledge Transfer


Mentoring TopicsCompetencies vs. Behaviors

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Recent Graduates entering workforce

69% - believe people skills get in the way of doing their jobs well

70% - believe that their technical skill is more valuable than their people skills

Business Leaders and HR directors

90% - believe that employees with strong people skills deliver a better commercial impact

91% - believe that employees with refined people skills advance faster


How to Identify Mentoring Relationships


What would a Realistic Partnership look like?

The mentoring pair should be realistic about what they can do for

each other and should help one another understand what kinds of

assistance each can expect.Source: Institute for Clinical Research Education


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tee M

entorBuilding a Foundation

• Establish Agreement• Determine expectations, commitment and

involvement• Develop rapport• Set realistic expectations

Establishing the Relationship• Establish your Agreement• Determine expectations, commitment and

involvement• Develop rapport• Set realistic expectations

Make Your Needs Known• Prepare for meetings and create agenda• Express Your Focus• Express Your Goals

Listen, Don’t Preach• Prepare for meetings and create agenda• Ask engaging questions• Understand their focus/goals

Discover Skills to Hone• Stories You Hear• Dialogues You Share• Assignments You Take• Connections You Make• Fully open up to advice/feedback

Do More Than Teach• Share Stories and experiences• Ask questions that probe deeper• Debrief Experiences• Provide suggestions without giving direction

Assess How You’ve Grown• Action Plan • Contribution Report• Recognize progress and achievements• Evaluate mentor and relationship

Define Actions for Each• Identify Derailers and Energizers• Decide on an Action Plan• Report on Emerging Talent• Evaluate mentee and relationship

Step 1: Initiation

Step 4: Closure

Step 2: Exploration

Step 3: Development

Partnership Expectations

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Resources• Your Journey to Executive, Advancing Women at

IBM Study www.ibm.com/employment/us/diverse/downloads/advancing_women_at_IBM_study_external_final.pdf

• How to Adopt Mentors Without Really Asking, Shellye Archambeau, NYTimes 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/business/shellye-archambeau-of-metricstream-on-finding-mentors.html?_r=0

• Mentoring 101, John C. Maxwell• The Mentee’s Guide; Making Mentoring Work for

You, Lory A. Fischler

Purpose Driven Mentoring October 17, 2015

http://www.ibm.com/employment/us/diverse/downloads/advancing_women_at_IBM_study_external_final.pdf

http://www.ibm.com/employment/us/diverse/downloads/advancing_women_at_IBM_study_external_final.pdf


Leadership Resources• Emotional Intelligence 2.0, Jean Greaves and Travis Bradberry• The Leadership Challenge, James Kouzes and Barry Posner• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen covey• First Things First, Stephen Covey• Principle-Centered Leadership, Stephen Covey• 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, John C. Maxwell• Good to Great, James Collins• Built to Last, James Collins• Toyota Way, Jeffrey Liker• The Machine that Changed the World, Daniel Roos, Daniel T. Jones and James P

Womack• Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance, Lou Gerstner• Lean Thinking, Daniel T. Jones, James Womack


Denise EvansVice PresidentWomen & Diversity B2B MarketingIBM Corporation

Stephen DoyleDirector, Product Validation & Materials Engineering, Meritor

Lauren WhiteMechanical EngineerNaval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)United States Navy

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Questions?

Meghan KahnManager, Diversity & InclusionAerotek

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