Think for a moment about your experience in facilitating someone else’s learning. Did it go well? Were there some things you could have done better? Chances are if you are like most mentors, you could become even more adept at facilitation. Help is on the way: (more…)
Knowing the right type of questions to ask and how to ask it, is an important mentoring skill. It facilitates deeper learning and engages the mentee as an active learner. (more…)
If you can confidently answer yes to the questions below, it will enhance your mentee’s learning experience immensely.
Are You Up to The Task?
One of the biggest challenges meeting leaders face is managing people who derail meetings. By being intimidating, negative, contentious, argumentative, dominating or snarking, meeting derailers can change the focus, structure and flow of the meeting.
Mentors are skilled facilitators. Mastery of facilitation skills enables a mentor to engage a mentee as an active partner in his or her own learning. Facilitation encourages self-reflection and ownership. (more…)
