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How to Prepare for Your First Mentoring Meeting with Your Mentee

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Your first meeting is about getting to know each other and determining if it’s a good fit. Will you be able to guide your mentee and help them achieve their goals?

It’s worthwhile to spend some time preparing for your first meeting. Here are some useful tips to make it more productive -

1. Contact

The mentee needs to reach out to you to set up the first meeting. Making your dates visible on MentorCloud will make scheduling easier. If you have synchronized your calendar, it’ll be easier to set up a date and time for your session without any scheduling conflicts. Ensure you have selected the correct time zones to avoid any confusion later.

Your meeting place, whether in-person or virtual, should be a quiet, safe space where you can both share openly. You could also select your preferred video conferencing tool.

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2. Background

Read up on your mentee on MentorCloud. Your mentee might also have added a link to his/her LinkedIn profile for you to learn about their background and professional experience.

What is their background and experience, achievements and interests?

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3. Agenda

Your mentee should send you an agenda a few days before your meeting. When you create a Session, there is space for you to note down an agenda for your meeting.

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PREPARATION

1. Who are you?

What do you want to share about yourself?
What are your strengths, values and achievements?
Have you mentored before?
What lessons did you learn from that experience?

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2. Why are you a mentor?

What do you hope to get out of the relationship?
What do you hope to learn?

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3. What are your expectations?

Reflect on what you expect from your mentee and how you see your role in the mentoring relationship.

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4. Parameters?

How often do you expect to meet, how you want to communicate, and any needed boundaries you want to establish?

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How to End the Mentoring Journey with Your Mentor

You and your mentor will have acknowledged that your next meeting will be your last.

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You and your mentor will have acknowledged that your next meeting will be your last. Here’s how to prepare for your last meeting.
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1. Prepare for your final meeting

Set aside some time to reflect on what you have achieved so far. What have you learned? Did the journey meet your expectations? What would you do differently?
Go through the goals you set. Were they achieved?
Make notes on what you would like to discuss during your final meeting. Is there advice you would like?
What would you like to thank your mentor for?
Would you like to be a mentor in the future?

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2. Your final meeting

Now is the time to celebrate your journey together. If possible, make it special by choosing a different place to meet, such as for lunch in a nice restaurant. You can choose a location to meet and enter it under Sessions. Simply select Schedule and go to Session Location and select Physical Location. You can type in the address within the Location details text box.
Reflect on what you have achieved so far and celebrate your successes. Share what you learned and how you have grown.
If you did not achieve all your goals, discuss your plans going forward.
Share with your mentor what you felt was effective and where their mentoring could be improved.

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3. What’s next?

Your formal mentoring journey is over, but you both may decide to remain in contact. If so, how will you stay in touch?
Appreciate your mentor. Thank them for what they have done for you.

Don’t let your mentoring journey fizzle out without formally concluding it. When a mentoring journey ends well it adds to the overall positive experience.

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