4.6 Requesting a Mentor (If available)

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Last updated: Mar 27, 2024
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Request a Mentor

From your Action Plan, provided this option is available to you, you are able to Request a Mentor to help address some skill gaps, or just to assist in some way or other.

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In order to match yourself with a Mentor, you will need to first establish or update your Mentor Preferences.

Mentors will be offered to you based on matching of your Professional Skill Gaps, and your selected Preferences. Or you can also elect to match based only on your Preferences, should you require a Mentor for aspects unrelated to Professional Skill gaps.

People can only offer themselves as Mentors if they have Business Skills (Generic Attribute) at least at Level 4.

Establish your Mentor Preferences

You should only need to do this once or only occasionally should your preferences change.

  1. Selecting the Mentor Preferences button will set off a dialogue window in which you can establish a Mentor Preferences by selecting, from the list of options provided, the Options that you wish to be matched against, when a looking for a Mentor.

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  2. Select the Options that you wish to be matched against. You must select at least 1 Option.

  3. Then use the Save button to establish your Mentor Preferences.

  4. You will get the following Prompt, and you can choose to Save your profile or Cancel the changes:

  5. Press OK or Cancel as required, and you should get a Confirmation prompt in the Top Right hand Corner.

 

 

 

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Finding a Mentor

To find a Mentor:

  1. Use the Find a Mentor button

  2. If a Mentor is available that matches your criteria, then you will get a list of possible mentors:

  3. Above we see there is only 1 Mentor that matches, and shows their Skills/Lvls that match your own Skill Gaps, (including a % match calculation).

  4. If you choose to Connect with one of the people in the list then:

    1. Select them e.g.:

  5. And then use the Connect button to Request a connection.

  6. You will need to confirm your request via the Pop message:

  7. Press OK to confirm, or Cancel to Cancel your Request

  8. You should receive the following prompt in the top Right Hand Corner of a successful Connection Request:

    1. Your List will refresh with that Mentor removed from the list to prevent a duplicate request:

  9. You can close the List pop-Up using the X

  10. You Requested Mentor will receive an Email regarding your request, and has the option to Accept or Decline your request.

  11. If/when your Mentor decides to Accept or Decline your request you will receive an Email confirming their acceptance or Decline, including a comment they are required to include regrading their action. e.g.

    1. The Email provides sufficient information to allow you to begin communicating with them.

  12. If accepted, there will be a Mentor/Mentee relationship established, and your Mentor will have access to all your information, including your Action Plan and Actions. They will in fact have similar access to a Line Manager, and able to make changes to your Action Plan, although we very much expect and encourage this would normally be carried out in with your approval to do so following communication.

  13. We would also recommend that this Mentor action would be documented as an Action in your Plan, usually with a Mentorship style classification. (This will however depend on what Action Types have been made available to you)

 

 

 

 

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