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How to Be a Good Mentor

with Ellen Ensher

Chef Mentoring Relationship Development Plan

Directions to Mentors and Protégés


This is a template for you to use. Some items may appeal to you and others may make you uncomfortable.
I would encourage you to consider each section carefully and feel free to add to or skip around as
needed. This is your relationship and while I have provided a suggested structure, ultimately you know
what works best for you. Take what is useful and ignore the rest.

1. Getting to know each other

Exercises and Assessments

1. Consider getting to know each other’s strengths by reading the book StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom
Rath and completing the assessment. Check out www.strengthsfinder.com for more information.

2. Consider getting to know each other’s personality and communication styles by each taking the
True Colors® Assessment and discussing it. You can check out a brief version of this along with a
PowerPoint presentation. For more information, visit https://truecolorsintl.com/assessments/.

3. Consider discussing core values. I have provided you with a list of top values. Add any values to this
list that you feel are missing. Identify the top five and then eliminate one, eliminate another one,
and so on. Ultimately, you will be left with one core value that you feel is most important. Discuss
your core values with each other.

Getting Acquainted Categories/Discussion Questions

• Work and Professional Background


You may want to exchange bios and resumes prior to meeting. I also find it useful to check out
LinkedIn profiles to get some general background. Some questions to consider: What was your
best (and worst) work experience? What were your most compelling lessons learned? Why did you
choose the jobs you did?

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Note: I used several sources including my book Power Mentoring. I also drew from The Mentor’s Guide by Lois J. Zachary and
Techniques for Coaching and Mentoring by David Megginson and David Clutterbuck. The section on work style was drawn from
Businessweek (Aug. 25–Sept. 1, 2008), page 50.

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• Past Professional and Personal Success
Questions to consider: As you reflect on your career so far, what are several of your successes that
you are most proud of? Personal successes?

• Past Professional and Personal Difficulties


Questions to consider: What have been some unwanted learning experiences in your career? What
have been some of your greatest challenges or obstacles? What are you still working on that is
challenging for you?

• Times When You Had to Demonstrate Resilience


Questions to consider: What have been some times when you have had your powers of resilience
tested? Are you resilient and what do you do to be resilient?

• Interest
Questions to consider: What are your top three interests professionally? Personally? What are your
favorite leisure activities or what would they be if you had the time to have any?

• Dreams and Aspirations


Questions to consider: If you had to write your obituary, what would it say? What do you hope to
accomplish in the next year? Next five years? What is your definition of success?

• Your Names and Their Significance


What is the origin of your name and how do you feel about that? What is your family of origin and
what groups do you identify with?

• Education
Questions to consider: Where were you educated? Who were your best teachers and advisors and
what did you learn from your different educational experiences?

• For Fun
Questions to consider: If you had a time machine, where would you go and who would you meet?
What are your guilty pleasures (that you can share!), such as watching reality TV, reading People
magazine, or your favorite trip? What are some items on your bucket list? When you are not
working, what is your favorite thing to do or place to be? What are you favorite movies, TV shows,
and why?

• Other
What questions do you like to ask people as you get to know them? How else can you discover
similarity? Complementary skills?

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2. Discussing Work Style
• How do I work best?

• How do I work?

• What is my communication style?

• When are the best times to approach me?

• What are my core values that help me make decisions at work?

• What is the best way to communicate with me?

• What are some habits or situations I absolutely will not tolerate?

• How do I feel about giving feedback? Receiving feedback?

• What is the best way that others can help me to be successful?

3. How are we similar to and different from each other?


• Work style?

• Personality and/or strengths?

• Values?

• Goals?

• Interests?

• What else?

4. Goal Setting
We have agreed on the following goals as the focus of our mentoring relationship:

Our goals for the next three to six months:

1.
2.

3.

4.

5.

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Action steps for the mentor:

Action steps for the protégé:

Our goals for the next seven to twelve months:

1.
2.

3.

4.

5.

Action steps for the mentor:

Action steps for the protégé:

Long-term goals in general:

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

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Discussion of the Action Learning Project
Consider the value of a mutually beneficial action learning project that is of interest and value to both the
mentor and the protégé. What are some ideas? What would be some reasonable deliverables?

Action steps for the mentor in relation to the action learning project:

Action steps for the protégé in relation to the action learning project:

5. Anticipating and Overcoming Challenges Together


What are the anticipated challenges that we might face? Typical ones include geographical distance, time
on other tasks, technological failure, cultural gaps, and simple miscommunication.

What do we anticipate as challenges?

How do we commit to overcoming these challenges?

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6. Logistics and Communication

• When will we meet next? In the future?

• Where will we meet and how will we communicate on an ongoing basis? Do we like to text? Have
phone appointments? Use email? IM? How do we feel about being Facebook friends? LinkedIn?
Twitter followers?

• How often will we meet?

• Who will initiate? (I suggest the protégé.)

• How will we make future plans and adjustments (i.e., use Outlook, text each other etc.)

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7. Next Steps

• Our next meeting is (where, when, and how)?

• Our agenda is (what or when)?

• What was not asked in this plan that we still want to discuss?

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