Sessions - Preparation (Agenda and Keys) for sponsees

Unleash the potential of MentorKey's Sessions feature. This guide explains how to use the Agenda and Keys features to create clear sponsorship session agendas, supporting you in having focused sponsorship conversations. Elevate your session preparation with MentorKey.

What is Sessions - Preparation (Agenda and Keys)?

Using the Sessions feature on MentorKey before your sponsorship session allows you to approach the session with a clear agenda, ensuring that you can articulate and focus on the specific topics you wish to explore with your sponsor.

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

1. Agenda
2. Keys

Agenda

What is an Agenda on MentorKey?

The Agenda feature allows you to capture additional thoughts and reflections whilst preparing for your sponsorship session. A clear agenda is a great way to make sure there is direction and focus for the session.

Logging an Agenda

Logging an Agenda in MentorKey helps you to organise your session preparation and ensures that you are ready for your upcoming sponsorship sessions. 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 notes.

Creating an Agenda

Here is how you create an Agenda on MentorKey

Creating an Agenda using MentorKey's AI

You can use MentorKey’s AI to quickly generate a clear, structured agenda for your sponsorship sessions. This feature is perfect for when you're short on time or unsure where to start. Let the AI give you a head start, then tailor the agenda to your needs.

Here is how you create an agenda using MentorKey's AI

Editing an Agenda

Here is how you edit an Agenda

Deleting an Agenda

Here is how you delete an Agenda

Sharing an Agenda

Sharing your Agenda with your sponsor can be a valuable way for them to prepare for your upcoming conversation and ensure they prioritise the topics you wish to discuss as you continue to work together.

Here is how to share an Agenda with your sponsor

Unsharing an Agenda

Here is how you unshare an Agenda

Finding your Agenda

Here is how to find the Agenda you have created

Finding an Agenda your sponsor has shared with you

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

Alternatively, you can find the Agenda on MentorKey.

Here is how to find the Agenda your sponsor has shared with you

Keys

What is a Key?

Keys are concise self-guided reflections, designed to help you unlock your thoughts and ensure you are clear on what you want to achieve and discuss in your sponsorship sessions. They cover the most common sponsorship and professional development topics.

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

Adding a completed Key to a Session

Adding your Key to a Session enhances your session preparation by ensuring you have a well-defined focus for your sponsorship session. Completed Keys can be added to a Session if you or your sponsor have created a Session in MentorKey and you want to refer to a specific Key in that session.

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

1. Adding a completed Key from the Keys page

   
   
2. Adding a completed Key from the Sessions page

Removing a Key from a Session

Here is how you remove a Key from a Session

Editing a completed Key

Sharing a completed Key

Sharing your completed Keys with your sponsor can be an effective way for you to share your discussion points, allowing them to prepare well ahead of your sponsorship session. Although it's highly recommended that you do so, it is entirely optional and you have the flexibility to choose whether or not to share your completed Keys.

Here is how to share a completed Key with your sponsor after you have added it to a Session

Unsharing a completed Key

Here is how you unshare a Key

Finding your Keys in Sessions

Here is how to find the completed Keys you have added to Sessions

Finding Keys your sponsor has shared with you

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

Alternatively, you can find the Key on MentorKey.

Here is how to find the Key your sponsor has shared with you