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How do you choose what to focus on with structured mentoring? It feels like current issues are too short term for this, unless it is a fundamental issue like n
by Leherenn 7y ago
How do you choose what to focus on with structured mentoring?
It feels like current issues are too short term for this, unless it is a fundamental issue like no having enough domain knowledge.
Googling and/or a quick discussion with your colleagues should suffice in most cases.
If it is a more general subject, how to choose which one?
Obviously there are a lot of things I don't know, but it's quite hard to pinpoint what would be the most beneficial thing to learn right now; otherwise I would have researched it already.
Maybe reviewing the recent work with the mentor, and trying to extract pain points from there could work?
- chrisbro 7y agoWe have had success at my org by anchoring a lot of the mentor/mentee discussion around our documented career ladder. If there's not a pressing specific discussion topic for one of their meetings, they can always bring that out and go through the ladder items to brainstorm ideas on how to progress. We also recommend mentors to sit in on some agile ceremonies with the mentee's team to get a feel for how the mentee's dynamic is with their team, which can spark some discussion as well. Fundamental, long-term issues can include encouraging the mentee to be more assertive, how to help their team become more effective, and how to approach navigating the inevitable politics of the organization.