Mentoring - Feedback
This video shows how a mentor can provide
feedback to assist the mentee to improve
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their performance.
The mentor should build rapport at the
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start of a feedback session to set the
mentee at ease.
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Tell me Gerard did you enjoy the game tonight?
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Yeah it was a lot of fun actually, ummm yeah
good game, I know we didn’t have a capacity
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crowd out there but they still made a lot
of
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noise, it was a battle for us to hear each
other actually. And the fact that it was close
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made it really enjoyable too.
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Now mate, what do you think you did really
well tonight?
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Well I was pretty comfortable with most of
it.
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I think our decision making was close to spot
and we got a good speed in the ruck so I was
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happy with that. Yeah I mean I guess there
were just a couple of instances where I was
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a bit unsighted with things that happened
with
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the play of the ball but I guess that can
happen in any game, you can get unsighted….
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The mentor should use questions to encourage
the mentee to self-reflect.
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So Gerry, where do you see the areas for
improvement?
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Well if we had of picked up those few little
things around the play of the ball, it would
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have been the icing on the cake and I’d
have
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felt as if we’d really nailed it, so I guess
to pick up those things would be the goal
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for
next time.
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So the last time we met you really wanted
to
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work on your focus and vocab at the play of
the ball, how do you think that went today?
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The mentor can provide advice to help the
mentee improve their performance.
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Yeah well you can see there that the dragons
player puts his hand in and knocks the ball
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out and it should have been a penalty, the
thing was the touch judge was calling to me
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for a penalty and at the same time the pocket
referee was saying it was a lost ball, so
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it
just came through as garble to me.
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I know the communication might have been
garbled but really you’re the central referee,
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you’re the control guy, you really should
have
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seen it. So tell me about your position?
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Yeah well I hadn’t looked at positioning
that
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much but when you look on there I’m probably
only one or two metres wide of the play of
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the ball and I’m kind of trying to peer
around
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and in at it to get a clear view and I just
didn’t get a clear view from there.
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So if you had your time over again, what would
you do, how would you change things?
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Well I guess looking at it now, I’d put
myself
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a few meters wider and maybe actually turn
my
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body so I’m looking back in at the play
of
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the ball
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There may be times when the mentor and mentee
disagree, and the mentor needs to defuse conflict.
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Now I want to talk about the communication
because it really looked as if the Newcastle
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skipper was running the show.
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Oh I don’t know about that, I mean it’s
just
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a straight out penalty and sure he questions
it
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but I give him a response and we move on.
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Why do you think he took that liberty with
you and came at you the way that he did?
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Yeah look I’m probably not that confident
because I haven’t seen what’s going on
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and
maybe that invites him to question me but
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I don’t think he’s seen what has happened
either but the fact I haven’t gives him
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scope to come in and ask the question.
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That’s exactly what we want, now let me
show you some of these great advantages
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that you played.
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Establishing an action plan will provide
the mentee with a way forward to improve
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their performance.
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Well Gerry, just to wrap up, I thought
you contributed really well to a terrific
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game of football, I thought some of the
advantages that you played were wonderful
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and overall I’ve never seen you look
fitter or better.
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Well, yeah I was pretty happy with it
overall, I think we got the big things
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right so I was happy with that and we
left it to the players to determine the
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result. We weren’t a talking point at
the end so yeah it was good. It hink it
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was just that fine tuning the positioning
around the play of the ball, working on
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getting in that tight ruck and creating
that angle so I’ve got vision in there.
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Yep and in relation to that, I want you
to have a talk to Bill before the next
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training session on Thursday and work on
developing a couple of drills that you
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can practice and make sure you get use
to the new angles that you’ll be running.
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Yeah and I’ve noticed a couple of guys
in the squad are really good at it,
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getting in around that area, so I
might get their DVDs and just have a
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look at where they go to in that
scenario. And I’m sure if we get some
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guys running some sets into the
tri-line and I practice getting in the
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position at the tight ruck and get
comfortable in that position, should
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be something I can carry forward
next week.
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When providing feedback, mentors should
build rapport with the mentee.
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Mentors use open questions and active
listening skills to encourage mentees
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to self-reflect.
Mentors provide advice and suggestions
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for improvement.
If mentees get upset by negative feedback,
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mentors defuse the conflict.
The development of an action plan will
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assist the mentee in the future.


