Sessions - Reflection (Insights and Actions) for mentees

Explore the benefits of MentorKey's Session feature. This guide explains how to use the Insights and Actions features to capture and reflect on post-mentoring session insights and track specific steps and goals. Elevate your session reflection with MentorKey.

What are Sessions - Reflection (Insights and Actions)?

Once you have had your mentoring session, you can use Sessions to reflect on your conversation, capture your 'aha' moments and ensure you have clear steps forward to achieve your goal.

There are two available features you can use to achieve this:

Insights
Actions

Insights

What are Insights on MentorKey?

The Insights feature allows you to record any post-session insights to ensure you have captured and can reflect on your 'aha' moments.

Logging Insights

Logging Insights in MentorKey helps you to keep track of your mentoring conversations and reflect back on the key insights you have discovered. Although it's highly recommended that you do so, it is entirely optional and you have the flexibility to choose whether or not to log your insights.

Creating an Insight

Here is how you create an Insight on MentorKey

Editing an Insight

Here is how you edit an Insight

Deleting an Insight

Here is how you delete an Insight

Sharing your Insights with your mentor can be a valuable way for them to reflect on the conversation from your perspective and ensure they prioritise your key insights and reflections as you continue to work together.

Here is how to share an Insight with your mentor after you have created it

Heads up: Your mentor will be able to view your Insight and will receive an email notification prompting them to read your Insight

Unsharing an Insight

Here is how you unshare an Insight

Note: Your mentor will not be notified that you have unshared an Insight with them. You may want to notify them directly.

Finding your Insights

Here is how to find the Insights you have created

Finding Insights your mentor has shared with you

You may have received an email notification informing you that your mentor has shared an Insight with you. To access the Insight directly, simply click on "View Insight" in the email.

Note: If you are unable to find the Insight, your mentor may have unshared this with you. You may want to check with your mentor directly.

Alternatively, you can find the Insight on MentorKey.

Here is how to find the Insight your mentor has shared with you

Actions

This section outlines how to use the Actions feature from the Sessions page. If you want guidance on Actions from the Goals page click here

What are Actions?

Actions represent the specific steps identified by you and your mentor to accomplish your goals.

Actions can be assigned to a particular Pillar Goal in cases where the action is likely to progress the achievement of that specific Pillar Goal.

Logging Actions

Logging Actions in MentorKey helps you and your mentor maintain accountability for completing actions. Although it's highly recommended that you do so, it is entirely optional and you have the flexibility to choose whether or not to log your actions.

Creating and assigning Actions

Heads up: Actions that you create in MentorKey will automatically be shared with your mentor

When you create an Action, you will be required to assign it to either yourself or your mentor, to indicate who is responsible for completing it. Similarly, your mentor can create and assign Actions.

If an Action that you create is related to one of your Pillar Goals (meaning it will contribute to the achievement of a specific pillar goal), you have the option to assign it to the corresponding Pillar Goal.

Heads up: An Action can only be linked to a Pillar Goal if you have created Pillar Goals

Here are two ways that you can create and assign an Action on MentorKey

Creating an Action from the Goals page
Creating an Action from the Sessions page

Actions can be created from the Sessions page if you or your mentor have created a Session in MentorKey and you want to record that the action was agreed upon in that session. This can be useful to refer to in your next session so updates can be provided on progress for each action.

Actions that you create in MentorKey will automatically be shared with your mentor.

Editing an Action

Heads up: You can only edit Actions that are assigned to you

Here is how you edit an Action

Here is how you edit which Pillar Goals the Action is linked to

Note: To change the assignee of an Action, you must create a new Action

Deleting an Action

Here is how you delete an Action

Finding Actions

Here is where you can find your Actions and Actions that have been assigned to your mentor

Completing an Action

Once you have completed an action that was assigned to you, you can mark it as complete in MentorKey.

Note: You can only complete Actions that are assigned to you

Here is how you complete an Action

Summarising Insights and Actions using MentorKey's AI

You can use MentorKey’s AI to instantly summarise your session notes into clear insights and action items. This feature is perfect for capturing key takeaways and next steps without needing to manually review everything you've discussed. Let the AI do the heavy lifting, then fine-tune the summary to suit your needs.

Here is how you summarise insights and actions using MentorKey's AI