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Course Outline
What is Mentoring & Why It Matters
- Responsibilities of mentors
- The empowering mentor
- Mentoring in the current landscape
- Characteristics of effective mentoring
- The significance of relationships in our lives
- Mentors who care beyond professional boundaries
- Going above and beyond as a mentor
Building a Mentoring Relationship
- Stages of relationship development
- Starting points
- The mentoring match
- Setting mentee expectations
- Developing a collaborative partnership
- Core guiding principles
- Establishing a mentor/mentee agreement
- Two-way mentoring and reverse mentoring
Sustaining a Mentoring Relationship
- Embracing a change-oriented mindset
- Managing change effectively
- Utilizing coping mechanisms
- Techniques of mirroring
- Providing validation
- Navigating gray areas
- Progressive adaptation
Navigating the Mentoring Relationship
- Tools for effective mentoring
- Adapting to shifting contexts
- Active listening
- Identifying and naming feelings
- Listening for underlying motivation
- Constructive confrontation
- Sharing information with positive impact
- Granting permission
- Cultivating genuine curiosity
Refining and Transitioning the Mentoring Relationship
- Refining and transitioning strategies
- Pitfall one: Offering criticism
- Pitfall two: Giving unsolicited advice
- Pitfall three: Attempting to rescue
- Managing the transition of the relationship
Understanding Decision Making
- Characteristics of effective and ineffective decision-makers
- Determining the necessary depth of analysis
- Components of the decision-making process
Selecting Actions
- Evaluating options with distinct advantages and disadvantages
- Performing quantifiable comparisons between alternatives
- Systematically comparing related options
- Systematically comparing unrelated options
Analyzing the Impact of Actions
- Using measures to weigh pros and cons
- Conducting force field analysis
- Comparing benefits against costs for different options
- Systematically analyzing cascading decisions
- Visualizing the decision-making process
- Tools to enhance creativity and generate more options
Making Decisions in Groups
- Implications of group decision-making
- Addressing frustrations in group thinking
- Strategies to increase meeting efficiency
- Preventing dominant individuals from taking over
- Encouraging shy or new members to share views safely
- Tools to streamline group decision-making
- Avoiding groupthink, where conflict avoidance leads to poor outcomes
Principles of Decision Making
- Is always securing a better bargain necessary?
- Philosophical implications of complexity in decision-making
- Planning strategies and key principles for action
- Applying game theory to decision-making
14 Hours
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