Keys for mentors

Unlock insights with MentorKey's Keys. This guide will explain how to use the Keys feature to help clarify your thoughts and to prepare for your mentoring sessions. Strengthen your mentoring conversations with MentorKey.

What is a Key?

Keys are concise self-guided reflections, designed to enhance your effectiveness as a mentor. They are focused on the most common mentoring topics.

Completed Keys are a summary of your thoughts and outputs from a Key. They can be used as a conversation blueprint for your mentoring sessions.

Tip: Take a Key before a session with your mentee to help you unlock your mentee's insights

Selecting the right Key

Note: Although taking Keys in MentorKey is highly recommended, it is entirely optional. If you do take Keys, you do not have to complete every Key.

There are a few ways that you can select an appropriate Key

Browse through the Key library

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Get Recommended Keys from MentorKey

Recommended Keys

What are Recommended Keys?

Recommended Keys are a personalised set of six Keys that are suggested for you to complete throughout the program, to help you support your mentee. MentorKey will create your personalised recommendations based on what you tell it that your mentee would like to achieve by the end of the program.

Generating Recommended Keys

Here is how you generate your set of Recommended Keys

Starting a Key

Once you have selected a Key, you can click on "Get started" to work through the Key

Heads up: If you have already completed a Key and click "Get Started" again, you will be able to take the Key again. This will not affect your previous work and you will still be able to access all previously completed Keys

Continuing a Key

Note: You can only continue Keys that you have already started

Here is how you continue a Key that you have already started

Completed Keys

Finding your completed Keys

Here is how you can find your completed Keys

Editing a completed Key

If you would like to change anything in a completed Key, you can do so by retaking the Key again. Select the Key you wish to retake to get started. You are currently unable to edit a completed Key.

Making the most of completed Keys

Sharing your completed Keys with your mentee can be an effective way for you to share your discussion points, allowing them to prepare well ahead of your mentoring session where relevant. Sharing your Keys is entirely optional, and you have the flexibility to choose whether or not to share your them with your mentee.

Here is how to share a completed Key with your mentee

Heads up: Your mentee will be able to view your completed Key and will receive an email notification prompting them to read your Key

Unsharing a completed Key

Here is how you unshare a completed Key

Note: Your mentee will not be notified that you have unshared a completed Key with them. You may want to notify them directly.

Using completed Keys in Sessions

Adding completed Keys to a Session

Completed Keys can be added to a Session if you or your mentee have created a Session in MentorKey and you want to refer to or note that you will/have discussed a specific Key in that session.

Here are two ways that you can add a completed Key to a Session on MentorKey

Adding a completed Key from the Sessions page

Adding a completed Key from the "Completed" Keys page

Moving a completed Key to a different Session

Here is how you move a completed Key to a different Session

Downloading a completed Key as a PDF

Here is how you download your completed Key as a PDF

Retaking a Key

If you would like to change anything in a Key that you have already completed or work through the Key again, you can retake the Key. Select the Key you wish to retake to get started.

Finding Keys that your mentee has shared with you

You may have received an email notification informing you that your mentee has shared a Key with you. To access the Key directly simply click on "View [mentee's name] completed Key" in the email.

Note: If you are unable to find the Key, your mentee may have unshared it with you. You may want to check with your mentee directly.

Alternatively, you can find the Key on MentorKey.

Here is how to find a Key your mentee has shared with you