Overview of Sessions for sponsors
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 sponsorship 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 sponsorship 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 sponsorship conversations. You can use Sessions:
- before your sponsorship sessions to prepare key topics and discussion points. For more information see Agenda and Keys (Preparation) below.
- after your sponsorship sessions to reflect on what was discussed and capture your next steps. For more information see Insights and Actions (Reflection) below.
Logging your sponsorship sessions using Sessions
Logging all your sponsorship sessions using the Sessions feature is a great way to keep track of your conversations, insights and steps towards achieving your sponsee'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 sponsee logs your sessions, however you can still contribute your own topics, notes, insights and actions to each session.
Creating a Session
Here is how you create a Session on MentorKey
Heads up: Your sponsee 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 sponsorship session or send a notification to your sponsee. 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 sponsee have created
Using Sessions before your sponsorship session
Visit Sessions - Preparation (Agenda and Keys) to find out more about using Sessions before your sponsorship session.
Using Sessions after your sponsorship session
Visit Sessions - Reflection (Insights and Actions) to find out more about using Sessions after your sponsorship session.
Elements of each Session
Agenda and Keys (Preparation)
The Agenda and Keys features within Sessions supports you and your sponsee to prepare for each of your sponsorship 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 sponsee'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 sponsee to reflect on your conversation, capture your key insights and log the actions you have agreed upon to support your sponsee to achieve their goal. Your Insights and Actions will be captured on the left and your sponsee's Insights and Actions will be captured on the right.
For more information on Sessions - Reflection (Insights and Actions) click here.
Session at a glance
The Session 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
