Overview of Sessions for mentors
Discover the power of MentorKey's Session feature. This guide explains how you can use the Sessions feature in your preparation and reflection of your mentoring sessions. Whether it's preparing for your sessions with key topics or reflecting on post-session insights and actionable steps, MentorKey is here to enhance your mentoring experience.
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What are Sessions in MentorKey?
The Sessions feature on MentorKey provides a structured framework to support you in preparing for and reflecting on your mentoring conversations. You can use Sessions:
- before your mentoring sessions to prepare your agenda and key topics. For more information see Agenda and Keys (Preparation) below.
- after your mentoring sessions to reflect on what was discussed and capture your next steps. For more information see Insights and Actions (Reflection) below.
Logging your mentoring sessions using Sessions
Logging all your mentoring sessions using the Sessions feature is a great way to keep track of your conversations, insights and steps towards achieving your mentee's goals. 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 sessions. It may be that your mentee creates the logs for your sessions, however you can still contribute your own agendas, topics, insights and actions to each session.
Creating a Session
Here is how you create a Session on MentorKey
Heads up: Your mentee will be able to see that a Session has been created. They will not see any of your completed Keys, Agendas or Insights unless you actively share with them.
Tip: Assigning a date (even a tentative one) to your Session will make it easier to track in MentorKey
Setting a date to your Session
Setting a date to your Session helps you to keep track of your Sessions.
Here is how you set a date to your Session
Note: Using this feature will not schedule your mentoring session or send a notification to your mentee. Its purpose is solely to assist you in tracking your sessions within MentorKey.
Finding your Sessions
Here is where you can find Sessions that you or your mentee have created
Using Sessions before your mentoring session
Visit Sessions - Preparation (Agenda and Keys) to find out more about using Sessions before your mentoring session.
Using Sessions after your mentoring session
Visit Sessions - Reflection (Insights and Actions) to find out more about using Sessions after your mentoring session.
Elements of each Session
Agenda and Keys (Preparation)
The Agenda and Keys features within Sessions supports you and your mentee to prepare for each of your mentoring sessions, allowing you to approach a session with a clear agenda and to focus on the specific topics you wish to explore in the session. Your Agenda and Keys will be captured on the left and your mentee's insights and actions will be captured on the right.
For more information on Sessions - Preparation (Agenda and Keys) click here.
Insights and Actions (Reflection)
The Insights and Actions features within Sessions supports you and your mentee to reflect on your conversation, capture your key insights and log the actions you have agreed upon to support your mentee to achieve their goal. Your Insights and Actions will be captured on the left and your mentee's Insights and Actions will be captured on the right.
For more information on Sessions - Reflection (Insights and Actions) click here.
Sessions at a glance
The Sessions page shows you:
- Undated, Upcoming and Past Sessions, listed by date
- For each Session, a snapshot (on the right-hand side) of whether the session has an Agenda, Keys, Insights or Actions
Note: These are automatically marked as completed as you progress through the Session
