FREE RESOURCES

The Mentoring Manual offers a range of free resources to download - exercises and tools to support your mentoring practice.

Please note: All resources are free to download, please use them with our blessings, and the following understanding:

  • That you will use these resources only within your own personal coaching work or practice
  • That you will not charge for use of these resources (or any part of them)
  • That you will credit our work appropriately, e.g. indicate Starr Coaching is the source of these materials.

The Mentoring Manual: All downloads

Prepare to mentor

A list of reflection questions to help a mentor to focus effectively, in advance of a mentoring relationship.

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What is mentoring?

A document you might give to a new mentee, to help them understand what mentoring is, and how they might get the best from a mentoring relationship.

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Checklist for mentees

A list of questions to help mentees reflect and prepare for a mentoring assignment.

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First session: outline agenda

An approximate schedule of topics and timings, to help you get started with mentoring conversations.

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Follow a session: reflection note for mentors

Helps a mentor to review and evaluate a mentoring session, to ensure their learning, and effective progress

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Following a session: reflection note for mentees

Helps a mentee to review and evaluate a mentoring session, to ensure they are getting the most from the conversation.

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Second session: Option A (relationship emphasis)

A list of topics and timings for a second mentoring session, with an emphasis on building the relationship (rather than handling specific issues).

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Second session: Option B (goal and tasks emphasis)

A list of topics and timings for a second mentoring session, with an emphasis on handling specific goals, issues or situations that the mentee wishes to make progress on.

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Review an assignment: outline agenda

A simple framework to support a conversation to review the effectiveness of an on-going mentor assignment

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Consolidate learning: outline agenda

A structured conversation to appreciate the impact, benefit and learning from a mentoring relationship. Is used at the closing stages of an assignment and includes an action list to complete.

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About the book

THE MENTORING MANUAL

Your step by step guide to being a better mentor

By Julie Starr

As a mentor you must be many things: role model, expert, advocate, cheerleader, enforcer and friend. Plus you must make a positive, lasting difference to the knowledge, skills and prospects of your mentee. So, being a mentor is a big responsibility. But with The Mentoring Manual, getting it right is easy.

Praise for the book includes:

“A breath of fresh air compared with many books on coaching and mentoring. The process of mentoring and the potential pitfalls are presented in a clear and challenging way.”

David Megginson, Emeritus Professor of HRD, Sheffield Hallam University

“A clear, pragmatic and accessible guide for mentors.”

Professor David Clutterbuck, author, speaker, and co-founder of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council

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The Mentoring Manual offers a range of free resources to download; from the agenda for a first meeting, to how to review and complete an assignment, these tools will support you to become a better mentor.

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