Mentoring

Crew 893

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Presentation created by Tyler Schroder of Crew 893. Authorized for Reuse with Permission by Scout Groups - Keep This Link: https://troop893.com/crew/venturing-training/

Last Update:

2020-05-25

Meet your Facilitators

• Tyler Schroder
• Elena Taylor
• Megan Staton

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Training Overview

This training will help you to understand

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• How to mentor other members of your crew
• Appreciate the role mentoring plays in personal growth for both the mentor and mentee

Conversation Starters

• Consider…
• Recall a time in your life when you might have experienced some major change. Consider the events that were driving the change. Think about the decisions you made and some of the changes that occurred within you. Relate whether someone helped provide an “aha” experience that allowed you to see yourself, others, or the situation in a different light.
• Tell about a personal experience or story that helped shape your outlook on life, family, work, or relationships. Interpret how that influenced your thinking.
• Recall someone who has been influential in assisting you in the discovery of an ability, skill, quality, or talent you had not yet recognized in yourself. Explain how this affected you.

So What’s Mentoring?

Part I

A Brief History of Mentoring

• Mentoring is a technique to impart important social, spiritual, and personal values can be traced back to ancient Greece

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• In Greek mythology, Mentor was a loyal friend and advisor to Odysseus, king of Ithaca.
• Mentor helped raise Odysseus’ son, Telemachus, while Odysseus was fighting the Trojan War.
• The word “mentor” evolved to mean trusted advisor, friend, teacher, and wise person.

Definition

• Mentoring is a personal enhancement strategy through which one person facilitates the development of another by sharing known resources, expertise, values, skills, perspectives, attitudes, and proficiencies

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Or simplier put:

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• A fundamental form of development where one person invests time, energy, and personal knowledge in assisting another person to grow and learn

What are the benefits of Mentoring?

Benefits

• Supports the Crew vision and Goals
• Increases the experience level of Crew members
• Builds leadership skills

Investments

• A large time and personal commitment

What’s in it for me?

Breakout Activity

1. You’ll enter a small breakout group and discuss!
2. predict reasons why a person would decide to be a mentor or a mentee.

Why would I want to Mentor or be Mentored?

Mentor

• Improves communication and leadership skills
• Re-energizes the mentor through working with others
• Provides an opportunity to help others
• Contributes to personal growth
• Increases understanding of a subject by teaching others

Mentee

• Improves leadership skills (planning / management)
• Builds communication skills
• Provides an opportunity to learn
• Encourages new contacts
• Increases confidence
• Contributes to personal growth

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Your Mentoring Tools

Mentoring Communication

• Communication is key to mentoring relationships!
• Can be face-to-face, or over the internet like texting
• Involves the following:
• Mutual Respect and Trust
• Listening
• Nonverbal communication
• Giving and Receiving feedback

You’ll need the “Giving and Receiving feedback” Handout

Two Great Tools

• The Learning Conversation
• A five-part process creating a reflective environment for problem solving
• Seven Steps to Good Planning
• A recommended way to plan out a Crew activity from scratch

Reaffirmation

• The mentor and mentee establish connections
• This is more than just a causal “know one another”

Reaffirmation

Identifying the Issue

Building a Mutual Understanding

Final Check

Exploring Alternate Solutions

You’ll need the “The Learning Conversation” Handout

Identifying the Issue

• The mentee describes their problem, and desired outcome

Reaffirmation

Identifying the Issue

Building a Mutual Understanding

Final Check

Exploring Alternate Solutions

Mutual Understanding

• The mentor uses open ended questioning to encourage the mentee to think about the problem in depth and explore solutions.
• The mentor should summarize at the end of the conversation

Reaffirmation

Identifying the Issue

Building a Mutual Understanding

Final Check

Exploring Alternate Solutions

Avoid offering solutions!

Asking Questions

Mutual Understanding

• Become creative! Explore different ways to move forward
• Goal: create a range of solutions that the mentee will carry out

Reaffirmation

Identifying the Issue

Building a Mutual Understanding

Final Check

Exploring Alternate Solutions

Don’t offer to do what the mentee can do for themselves

Mutual Understanding

• The mentor encourages the mentee to review what they will do, and why.
• Also discuss what has been learned about the situation and themselves in the process.
• The responsibility is on the mentee for what happens next.

Reaffirmation

Identifying the Issue

Building a Mutual Understanding

Final Check

Exploring Alternate Solutions

The Seven Steps of Good Planning

You’ll need the “The Seven Steps of Good Planning” Handout

Roleplay Situations

Use what you’ve learned!

Scenario 1

You are the program vice president of your crew. During the annual planning meeting, your crew elected to get scuba certified and take a scuba excursion as one of the major activities of the year. No one in the crew is scuba certified. Using the Seven Steps of Good Planning as a guide, mentor the new activity chair

Scenario 2

Your crew expressed an interest in taking a mountain trek at Philmont Scout Ranch. The crew program vice president submitted the application for a 10-day trek and the crew was lucky enough to receive a slot. The trek is 20 months away. Using the Seven Steps of Good Planning as a guide, mentor the new activity chair.

Scenario 3

Your crew has decided to spend seven days in Washington, D.C. The purpose of the trip is to become more familiar with the history of our government and to observe democracy in action. Using the Seven Steps of Good Planning as a guide, mentor another youth to plan this trip

Closing & Summary

What You Learned

• Everyone (mentee, mentor, and Crew) benefits from mentoring relationships done right

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Closing Thoughts

• Three Keys of Making Mentoring Work!
• Communication
• Commitment
• Trust

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“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month’s

study of books.”

~ Chinese proverb

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Thank you for Participating!

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• Looking to teach this yourself? You can access a copy of this presentation + resources at https://troop893.com/crew/venturing-training/
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Presentation created by Tyler Schroder of Crew 893. Authorized for Reuse with Permission by Scout Groups - Keep This Link: https://troop893.com/crew/venturing-training/

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