The Mentoring Pathway.

From Experienced Practitioner to Effective Mentor

4 modules · 16 lessons · about 2 hours · free, with a certificate at the end

What this pathway teaches.

Sixteen lessons across four modules, each closed out with a ten question exam. Pass at 80% to unlock the next module. Complete all four to earn your certificate.

Four modules, taken in order. A 10-question exam closes each one; you need 8 out of 10 to pass, retakes are unlimited, and the next module unlocks when you do. Finish all four and your certificate is issued in your name.

The modules

01

Foundations

Mentoring reframed for the senior practitioner: what it actually is, the toolkit that replaces telling, the war-story habit that gets in the way, and the contract that sets the relationship up right.

  1. What Mentoring Actually Is · about 6 minutes
  2. The Toolkit: Listening, Questions, Your Own Career as Evidence · about 7 minutes
  3. Why Senior People Default to War Stories · about 6 minutes
  4. Contracting the Relationship · about 6 minutes

Module exam: 10 questions, about 5 minutes.

02

The Working Relationship

The mentoring relationship reframed as a working discipline: sessions that earn their hour, the career-map conversation, feedback the mentee can actually use, and the boundaries that keep it safe.

  1. A Session Worth the Hour · about 7 minutes
  2. The Career-Map Conversation · about 6 minutes
  3. Feedback the Mentee Can Use · about 6 minutes
  4. Difference, Confidentiality and Staying in Your Lane · about 7 minutes

Module exam: 10 questions, about 5 minutes.

03

Developing Careers

Career development reframed as mentoring terrain: the big moments, the politics a mentee must learn to read, the shift from mentoring into sponsorship, and the stalled relationships that need restarting or ending well.

  1. Job Moves, Promotion Cases and Counter-Offers · about 7 minutes
  2. First Leadership Roles and Setbacks · about 7 minutes
  3. Visibility, Network and the Edge of Sponsorship · about 6 minutes
  4. The Stuck Mentee and the Right Ending · about 7 minutes

Module exam: 10 questions, about 5 minutes.

04

The Mentor's Craft

The mentor's own career reframed by the craft: the reputation that comes from growing people, the different rules inside your business versus across the community, what you get back, and the habit that makes it last.

  1. Becoming Known as a Developer of People · about 6 minutes
  2. Your Business Versus the Wider Community · about 6 minutes
  3. What You Get Back · about 6 minutes
  4. The First Ninety Days, and Making the Habit Stick · about 7 minutes

Module exam: 10 questions, about 5 minutes.

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