Mentoring - The initial meeting


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This video will show how a mentoring
relationship can be established.

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A mentee should take the initiative
to establish the mentoring relationship.

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Steve, I’m Gabe, I’ve just completed
my accreditation course and I’m

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looking for a mentor to complete
some hours.

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Oh congratulations on doing that,
well done.

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I was wondering if you could perhaps
be that mentor for me?

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Oh thanks for asking, I’ve actually
noticed you around doing some

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pre-season work. How many hours
do you need for your mentoring?

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Building rapport is important to a
good mentoring relationship.

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Effective two-way communication
also plays a vital role.

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I’m actually quite busy at the
moment, just because it’s the

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start of the season but I think
that I could probably work with

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you on a Wednesday night and
certainly for your Saturday games.

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That sounds good, I’m just happy
to fit around your schedule.

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Oh great, well that being the
case I think that we could work

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together for the rest of this
season.

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Fantastic. I really appreciate
you giving up your time.

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Oh that’s quite all right, I
enjoy helping out people around

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the club, seeing them develop
their skills. It actually helps

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with my accreditation as well.
When I’ve worked previously in

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mentoring relationships I’ve found
it’s really useful to set some

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goals for the time that we’re
going to work together.

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Coach: Oh okay…..

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It’s beneficial to establish an
agreement upfront. This is where

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the mentor may ask questions to
identify needs and goals of the

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mentee.

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So have you thought about some
specific areas that you’d like

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to work on during our time
together?

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When I was at my course I did
feel that I need to improve on

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my communication and planning
skills.

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Okay well that’s good you’ve
started to think about those

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things. Perhaps you could show me
a couple of your plans?

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I don’t actually write any plans,
I usually just make them up in

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my head on the way to a game.

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Okay planning is a really useful
tool. You can use it to refer

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to at games, but also in the
review of games and in planning

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for your next training sessions
and games in the future.

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Maybe you could help me write a
few, just till I get the hang of it?

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Yeah sure, I’d be happy to. And
perhaps you can think about the

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areas of communication you’d like
to work on during the next season.

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Right I’ll set some goals for
the next season

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That’d be good - you could actually
text or email them before our next

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meeting.

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So when should we meet up next?

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How about a half hour before training
on Wednesday nights?

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What about game time?

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Yeah I’ll have a look at my schedule
before then and we can go from there.

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See you next Wednesday then.

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Sounds good, now you remember to
have a look at the specific areas

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you want to work on this season.

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Will do. Thanks Steve:

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See you

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The initial meeting between mentor
and mentee is used to identify needs,

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set goals and establish an agreement
about how the mentoring relationship

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will work.

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In the mentoring process the mentee
should initiate and take responsibility

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for the relationship;

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The mentor needs to build rapport;

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