Goal setting for mentees

Empower your mentoring journey with MentorKey's Goals feature. This guide explains how to use MentorKey's Goals feature to set meaningful and impactful goals, helping you define what you want to achieve from your mentoring experience. Clarify your aspirations with MentorKey.

What are Goals in MentorKey?

In MentorKey, Goals are where you record your aspirations and objectives for the mentoring partnership, outlining what you aim to accomplish with your mentor.

The importance of setting goals

Setting goals in a mentoring relationship is the foundation for success. Having clear goals ensures that you can focus your time with your mentor on the areas that will most help you achieve your aspirations.

Clear goals provide a shared sense of direction and allow you to track and evaluate your progress against the goals.

Aspirational vs. pillar goals (goal-setting framework)

Aspirational goals

An aspirational goal is a big-picture goal that you would like to achieve during your time with your mentor. It is a vision that you plan to work towards and will be informed by what you value most. Often this goal is qualitative.

Pillar goals

Pillar goals sit below aspirational goals and consist of more specific areas of focus that if accomplished, will enable you to achieve your aspirational goal.

Setting Goals

There are two ways to set Goals in MentorKey

1. Taking a guided approach with the Clarifying Your Mentoring Goal Key
2. Taking an independent approach via the Goals page

Here is how you set Goals via the Goals page

Adding Goals

Here is how you add more Pillar Goals

Editing a Goal

You can edit both your Aspirational Goal and your Pillar Goals.

Here is how you edit your Aspirational Goal

Here is how you edit your Pillar Goals

Deleting a Goal

Here is how you delete Pillar Goals