Becoming a Mentor - Helping others grow and succeed

Name: Becoming a Mentor - Helping others grow and succeed
Rating: 4.4 (462 reviews)

Learn coaching and communication skills that will make you a great mentor

Created byHire Bright

Last updated 2/2023

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What you'll learn

How to give advice
Coaching skills
Listening skills
Asking questions
Structuring a mentoring session

Course content

3 sections • 10 lectures • 34m total length

Introduction2:12
Develop the skills, attitudes, and methodology to become a great mentor who helps others grow and succeed by passing on experience and knowledge, in both formal programs and informal settings.
Giving Advice2:27
Learn to empower mentees by fostering ownership and guiding them to generate their own solutions, using a practical methodology that optimizes advice delivery without simply providing answers.
Why people look for advice0:48
Inspiring Ownership1:34
Inspire ownership by asking questions instead of giving advice, balance support with enabling someone to do things by themselves, and foster awareness that drives action.

Asking Questions3:16
Learn to use questions to shift a mentee’s perspective, cultivate a positive focus, and raise awareness of multiple viewpoints through mentor-led dialogue and the duck and rabbit illusion.
Asking the Right Questions3:32
Learn to ask open questions to foster conversation, reflection, and growth in mentoring, and use targeted closed questions to prompt action while honoring silence.
Listening5:06
Develop active listening and deliberate acknowledgment in mentoring by seeking to understand before responding, reflecting what you heard in your own words, and building trust through presence and practice.
Powerful Questions4:50
Identify powerful questions through careful listening and the right timing, prompting mentees to pause, reflect, and shift perspectives, using examples that build trust and advance conversation.
The GROW Model8:09
Explore the growth model as a practical framework for mentoring and coaching conversations, guiding learners through goals, reality, options, and will with active listening and ownership.

Requirements

There are no requirements or prerequisites to participating in this course.

Description

In this course you will learn what is needed to become a great mentor and help others grow and succeed. We will cover the skills and attitudes, as well as a methodology that will give you the tools to become a great mentor.

Students from around the globe rate this course with 4.5-5 stars:

"It's an exemplary course, the explanations are amazing and the tonation of the tutor is encouraging, it gives me the urge to listen to more and more of his tutorials." Fidel Martin

"Well structured course, with excellent advice, quick, clear and easy to apply into practice." Raimondo Molinario

So, can you mentor others without a PHD? Well, you can become a mentor independently of your, credentials, knowledge, or professional experience. Mentoring skills can be used by everyone in many situations.

Mentoring essentially, is guiding someone on a specific skill or subject. It’s about personal development and growth, it’s about dealing with situations, be it at work, or in any other type of organization. However, more than anything, mentoring is about communicating in an inspiring way.

This course is built for everyone, individuals who are part of a larger organization that offers a mentoring program, and as well individuals who are not part of any organization, but want to deepen their mentoring skills.

By the end of this course you will be able to properly prepare and handle mentoring sessions and you will also significantly improve your communication skills.

Who this course is for:

Anyone who wants to mentor or help others

Becoming a Mentor - Helping others grow and succeed

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Course content

Introduction4 lectures • 7min

Mentoring Skills5 lectures • 25min

Conclusion1 lecture • 3min

Requirements

Description

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