Goal setting for mentors
Empower your mentoring journey with MentorKey's Goals feature. This guide explains how to use MentorKey's Goals feature to support your mentee to set meaningful and impactful goals, helping you define what they want to achieve from your mentorship experience.
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What are Goals in MentorKey?
In MentorKey, Goals are where mentees record their aspirations and objectives for the mentoring partnership, outlining what they aim to accomplish with their mentors.
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 mentee on the areas that will most help them to achieve their aspirations.
Clear goals provide a shared sense of direction and allow you to track and evaluate your mentee's progress against their goals.
Aspirational vs pillar goals (goal setting framework)
Aspirational Goals
An aspirational goal is a big picture goal that your mentee would like to achieve during their time with you. It is a vision that they plan to work towards and will be informed by what they 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 your mentee to achieve their aspirational goal.
Supporting your mentee to set their goals
As a mentor, sometimes you may need to support your mentee to articulate their goal. MentorKey has the Clarifying Your Mentee's Goal Key to guide you with this.
Finding your mentee's Goals
Here is where you can find your mentee's Goals (if they have set them in MentorKey)
Supporting your mentee to achieve their goals
As a mentor you have a key role in supporting your mentee to work towards achieving their mentoring goal. You can do this in the following ways:
- Ensuring your mentee has set their goals
- Regularly reviewing their goals to ensure they remain relevant
- Focussing your sessions together on the areas which will most help them to achieve their goals
- Setting your mentee actions to take between your sessions.