Mentoring - The initial meeting
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;


