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.
- What Mentoring Actually Is · about 6 minutes
- The Toolkit: Listening, Questions, Your Own Career as Evidence · about 7 minutes
- Why Senior People Default to War Stories · about 6 minutes
- Contracting the Relationship · about 6 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.
- A Session Worth the Hour · about 7 minutes
- The Career-Map Conversation · about 6 minutes
- Feedback the Mentee Can Use · about 6 minutes
- Difference, Confidentiality and Staying in Your Lane · about 7 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.
- Job Moves, Promotion Cases and Counter-Offers · about 7 minutes
- First Leadership Roles and Setbacks · about 7 minutes
- Visibility, Network and the Edge of Sponsorship · about 6 minutes
- The Stuck Mentee and the Right Ending · about 7 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.
- Becoming Known as a Developer of People · about 6 minutes
- Your Business Versus the Wider Community · about 6 minutes
- What You Get Back · about 6 minutes
- The First Ninety Days, and Making the Habit Stick · about 7 minutes