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How will Crucial Mentoring Conversations help you?

Reflect on and discover the more intentional role mentors can fulfill to help grow and develop the competence and confidence of others.

Enable you to hold deeper more honest conversations that create new levels of self-awareness and opportunities for those that you mentor to transform situations and relationships around them.

Learn to apply the Crucial mentoring conversation topics relevant to your specific mentor-mentee relationship.

The 8 key topics conversations are based on

Purpose

It is a privilege to live. every day each of us are presented with a kaleidoscope of choices opportunities and challenges, yet some of us have no clue why we exist and what we want to do with our lives. This rich conversation provides an opportunity to understand the “Why” of your mentee. You will also have greater clarity around goals, aspirations, and the values of those you mentor

Career Momentum

The old paradigm has at last expired- you don’t stay in a single career until you retire. The notion of lifetime employment has been replaced with lifetime employability. Is your mentee marketable or employable? What is his or her career aspirations? Which career anchors will influence his/her key career decisions?

Performance

Performance management epitomises one of the absurdities of corporate life. It undermines in many cases performance as people struggle with ratings, worry about compensation. In most cases it does little to improve performance. Intentional mentors engage in performance conversations to have a greater understanding of the current level of performance of their mentees. These conversations help mentees to excel as it provides both helpful feedback on specifics and serves as a confirmation of achievements.

Fitness

“What got you here wont get you there” reminds us that people often get promoted because of their technical competence. This conversation provides an opportunity for a broader understanding of what is required and ways to explore your mentees readiness for the next level.

Strengths

Our flawed assumptions that, “each person can learn to be competent in almost anything” and “each person’s greatest room for growth is in the area of greatest weakness” have resulted in us taking peoples talents and gifts for granted. It has impacted on our ability to truly accelerate development, boost confidence and multiply the innovation and creativity of those we develop. This powerful conversation explores your mentees competitive advantage and if they are in the right “territory”.

Relationships

Life is all about relationships. Some of our greatest moments of joy and even misery happen socially. It is indeed a challenge for most people to build strong, healthy effective relationships. This conversation explores not only how your mentee is perceived by others but also how to build beneficial relationships.

Networks

People are more successful at life and at work when they are connected to and in contact with a trusted collection of like minded individuals. Mentors understand the real path to success, personally and professionally is though creating an inner circle of “profitable relationships” that are valuable, productive and reciprocal. This conversations fully explores the comment “your network is your net worth ”.

Classified

People do not leave their emotions at home. Mentors understand that when mentees are anxious, frustrated, uncertain or alienated that they cannot offer their best. Authentic mentoring relationships cultivate moments where opinions can be voiced, frustrations aired and concerns raised.

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Testimonials

These two days felt like open heart surgery. The course really gets you first look at yourself as leader and mentor of others.

Mine ManagerNorthern Cape Mining Operation

I feel like I want to start afresh with my mentee after this course. I have done a lot of things well a mentor but the Crucial Mentoring programme gives me a framework for the conversations I would still need to have. I think I can do a better job at mentoring those who entrust me with this important role.

Engineering ManagerRustenburg Operation

We have implemented mentoring and started mentoring others without really understanding the important role and potential impact that mentors can make. Wow! Insightful two days.

Mentor at Financial InstitutionCape Town

I have measured myself in how successful my mentees are. The completion of studies and their promotions. I can now also evaluate how impactful various conversations are with my mentees.

Operations Manager, LogisticsJohannesburg

I often ask myself why I get up in the morning. These 2 days have enhanced my own understanding of purpose and “why” I do what I do.

Financial Executive, Commercial BankJohannesburg

I’ve made many mistakes a mentor. These two days have showed me how to be more intentional in all my relationships. I can’t wait to get back to our next mentoring conversation.

MentorAcademic Institution

The better we do mentoring the better we sleep as engineers, knowing our business is in good hands. Now I have a template to apply mentoring in a very practical way.

Engineer Mining Operation

We’ve done mentoring purely as an initiative to comply to the requirements of our external environment. The CMC programme helped me to discover the business case for mentoring and how we can develop capacity that our business will need in the future.

Head of OperationsConstruction company