Mentoring Arrangement Learning Investigation Mentee
Investigate together what each person seeks to learn - because of the mentoring arrangement - starting with the mentee
Investigate means carry out research - to study - to inquire (formally) - to enquire (informally) about -> the facts of something or the characteristics of someone
Together refers to working with one another, with possible external support when requested - about collaborating, about collaborative conversations for the investigation
By working together you then move to working beyond - that is you expand, extend, and enliven your shared action_outcomes as a mentee, mentor, and for the mentoring arrangement
Person seeks to Learn ... while a person (mentee and mentor) may not like education (that is, how the person experiences educating) most would say they enjoy learning
The question becomes, "What topics does a person want to learn for what purpose/reason?" (linking with #1, reread the post)
From a workplace perspective - for a mentoring arrangement there is:
- formal learning = you are required to learn the topic - as in you must learn it because of your accountabilities or to remain safe/do no harm
- informal learning = about the topics you determine are important to learn for knowing and doing, and they directly or indirectly influence your accountabilities in the near future including remaining safe/doing no harm
- situational learning = what topic "in the moment" is apparenty worth investigating as it unfolds now or immediately afterwards because of your reflective action that would edit (add, alter, delete, leave) your formal and informal learning
starting with the Mentee ... for the mentoring arrangement - it's important the mentor explore and discover the topics the mentee wants and needs to learn.
In this way, mentors are guiding the mentees to their investigation requirements (formal learning) and requests (informal learning) from situations the mentees ask to experience and/or lead them to experience through and because of the collaborative conversations
Based on your collaborative conversation, as a mentor supporting your mentee:
- create a shared pathway forward for the mentee (and you)
- to learn formally and informally (and situationally)
- using a mentoring (more so, a facilitative mentoring) approach
- and other educating approaches aligned with the scope/concerns/influence of the learning
- within the mentoring arrangement
- for use and evaluation now and in the near future
- using safer practices to ensure no harm to self and others
Look at #3 in the next post
- Clarify your purpose of/your reason for the mentoring arrangement from the outset
- Investigate together what each person seeks to learn, starting with the mentee
- Listen to each other’s words and watch each other’s actions to clarify what each person seeks/confirms from the connection
- Strengthen your trust in the mentoring relationship from start to finish
- Know trust is shared in a relationship where mutual recognition thrives
- Grow the mentoring relationship from the perspective of know thyself
- Convey delight in supporting each other’s mindset development via prove the success and improve the growth
- Celebrate the willingness to expand the concepts and improve the practices of your expertise
- Appreciate the time and effort necessary to ensure an extraordinary mentoring arrangement
- Utilize problem inquiry and appreciative inquiry to guide your conversations
- Remain open to the decision-making process instead of narrowing to an impulsive response
- Explore the various angles of suggested responses in favor of co-creating wise practices
- Interpret the requirements and requests each of you has during your time together
- Recognize truthfulness develops from access to adequate or total information that both parties can use to assist each other
- Formulate inquiries of each other in action-based statements that allow for measurement
- Organize the boundary of your topic dialogue
- Prioritize the issues open for review and reinvention without initial direction
- Frame the informal and incidental learning activities thought useful to stimulate experience-based learning
- Outline your realistic outcomes
- Establish intentions for the conversation and ensuing results
- Share stories and directives that lead to crafting goals to guide the mentoring arrangement
- Collaborate in the fulfillment of each other’s commitments
- Demonstrate assertiveness and cooperation in all interactions
- Keep promises to improve, focus, and strengthen the mentoring arrangement during and in-between meetings
- Navigate experiences through learning for action
- Customize experiences to highlight the learning objective
- Customize activities to formulate the mentee’s questions and the mentor’s answers
- Determine which actions are appropriate to move learning forward, according to the joint decisions
- Model honesty and fairness in nurturing a caring relationship
- Communicate ways that foster conversations
- Encourage diversity without judgment
- Further what each person brings to the mentoring arrangement
- Commit to self-concept awareness while engaged with another
Over the weeks that follow, I'll add some thoughts to each action_outcome statement ...
And I would enjoy your thoughts as well ... Your edits (add, alter, delete) are appreciated.
Onward ...
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WELLth Movement guides inspired practitioners to become natural educators who deliver extraordinary experiences with their community of significance using eco-ethical architecture for movement and profitability.
Inspired Practitioners
_ Managers and Leaders in organizations of all types, sizes, and locations
_ Parents & Grandparents looking to involve their children/grandchildren with nature
Natural Educators
_ Facilitative Mentors
_ Navigators & Weavers
_ Instructive Coaches
Extraordinary Experiences
_ Employees & Customers
_ Children and Grandchildren
Community of Significance
_ Elevate groups and teams (departments/units) to communities of significance
_ Involve family and friends in nature-based activities to benefit of all & trees
Eco-Ethical Architexture
_ use of Ecological Literacy
_ use of Ethical Decision-Making
_ use of language that evolves love and compassion in being for the world
Movement - fit of what you do in the physical - social movement before you
Profitability - the type of ways you benefit from the work and associated movement
