Keys for sponsees

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

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.

Selecting the right Key

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

1. Browse through the Key library

2. Filter by topic

3. Search by topic

4. Get Recommended Keys from MentorKey

Recommended Keys

What are Recommended Keys?

Recommended Keys are a personalised set of six Keys that are recommended for you to complete throughout the program. MentorKey will create your personalised journey based on your aspirations for the program that you share with MentorKey.

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 "Get started" to work through the Key

Continuing a Key

Here is how you continue a Key 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 completed Keys with your sponsor

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 Keys.

Here is how to share a completed Key with your sponsor

Unsharing a completed Key

Here is how you unshare a completed Key

Using completed Keys in Sessions

Adding completed Keys to a Session

Adding your completed Keys 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 Sessions page

   
   
2. Adding a completed Key from the "Completed" Keys page

Moving a completed Key to a different Session

Here is how you move your 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 completed Keys that your sponsor has shared with you

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

Alternatively, you can find the completed Key on MentorKey.

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