Overview of MentorKey for mentors
What is MentorKey?
MentorKey is your personalised and hands-on companion, dedicated to assisting you throughout your mentoring journey. Crafted by mentoring experts, MentorKey provides a range of features aimed at helping you deliver the most impact in your interactions with your mentee.
How does MentorKey add value to me as a mentor?
As a mentor, your role isn't to have all the answers, it's to create space for reflection, ask thoughtful questions, and support your mentee in building clarity and confidence. MentorKey gives you the tools to help make each session purposeful and impactful.
MentorKey features
- Ensuring your mentee has set clear objectives
- Ask questions more than giving answers
- Provide a different perspective
- Set actions between sessions
- Sustain change
You'll use tools like Goals, Sessions, Keys and Actions to put these into practice.
Each aspect of success corresponds to a distinct feature within MentorKey:
- Ensure your mentee has set clear objectives: Goals
- Ask questions more than giving answers and provide a different perspective: Keys and Sessions - Preparation
- Set actions between sessions: Actions
- Sustain change: Sessions - Reflection
Navigating your way around MentorKey (home page)
The home page serves as your hub for accessing MentorKey's comprehensive features and offers a quick overview of your progress and activities on the platform.
My mentee's goal records what your mentee wants to focus on for your time together. Revisit these goals regularly to ensure each conversation stays aligned and relevant. You can also help your mentee break down goals into actionable steps.
Sessions help you structure and reflect on your mentoring meetings.
Before each session, check your mentee's shared agenda and any completed Keys. Add your own agenda or notes to clarify where you want to focus. After each session, return to Sessions to capture key takeaways and plan next steps together.
Keys are guided frameworks designed to support deeper conversations.
Each Key explores a specific topic and helps you ask questions that encourage reflection and discovery. Completing a Key gives you a focused prompt for your next session. You can also review Keys completed by your mentee to align your approach.
My actions is where you can view your assigned Actions. Use the Actions feature to ensure your mentee stays accountable between sessions.
At the end of each conversation, confirm what actions your mentee has committed to. At the start of the next, revisit those actions to track progress and continue building momentum.
Head to Your Next Steps to follow MentorKey's suggested path. It will guide you through reviewing your mentee's goals, preparing for your first session, and exploring tools to support your mentoring approach.
