
Explore compassionate listening, discovery, and learning through the idea method of mentor coaching, as this seminar introduces your journey in mentor coaching.
Define mentoring and coaching, compare their differences and similarities in healthy, trust-based relationships, and outline the key empowerment functions and qualities of effective mentors and coaches.
Explore active listening in mentor coaching, emphasizing empathy, nonverbal cues, and six components—attending, interpretation, questioning, focus, reflection, and summarization—to build a safe, client-led dialogue.
Define mentoring, coaching, and mentor coaching as empowering processes using resources, open-ended questions, and goal setting to foster personal transformation, confidentiality, and legacy.
Identify when to refer a mentor to qualified resources, respect limitations, and guide a collaborative transition that prioritizes the mentoring relationship and well-being, not therapy.
Explore advanced mentor coaching skills by deepening compassionate listening, discovery learning, and the idea method through group discussions, and pursue a certificate in mentoring, coaching and leadership development with practicum.
We invite you to take this short course as your first step in your mentor-coaching journey. We don't pretend you'll be a master mentor-coach at the conclusion. That takes ample study and practice. We do, however, promise that you'll get your feet wet, become familiar with the paradigm, and spark some ideas of how you can be a better leader by being a better mentor-coach.
This course is broken into a few key components:
A brief introduction to the course
Space to assess your current understanding of mentoring and coaching as well as share your experiences
An introduction to mentoring and coaching
An introduction to active listening, one of the key tools of effective mentor-coaches
Best practices for establishing healthy mentor-coaching relationships
When you're "in over your head" and how to refer to someone else
And what your next steps might be
This course is great by itself; but, it is also part of a larger Certificate in Mentoring, Coaching, and Leadership Development from Grand View University in Des Moines, IA. If you want to continue your growth as a mentor-coach through deeper study and lots of practice, don't hesitate to reach out. I would love to help you continue with a course-plan that will help you become a certified mentor-coach!
You can expect this course to take 1-2 hours depending on how much time you spend reflecting on each of the sections.