A mentor's toolkit for career conversations : a comprehensive guide to leading conversations about career planning [E-book]

Cover title: "The mentor's toolkit for career conversations".

Table Of Contents
Intro
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
1. Introduction and Overview
2. Tools & Guides List
3. Mentoring for Career Overview
I. Career in Context
1. The Changing Career Scene
2. Career Phases
3. Work/life Balance
II. The Mentoring Conversation
4. Mentoring: a Safe Space
5. A Framework for the Mentoring Conversation
6. Develop Talents and Strengths
III. Career Conversations
7. Where Are You Now?
8. Where Do You Want to Be
9. How Might You Get There?
10. How’s it Going Now?
IV. Tools and Guides
11. Guides
12. Tools
Online Video Modules
Reccommended Reading
References
About the Author

The Mentor’s Toolkit for Career Conversations will help you help your mentees to:

Figure out what they really want from work and life;
Assess what they’re capable of and where they need to develop;
Research career options and opportunities;
Set realistic goals and plans.

This book enables you to understand the work-life issues and concerns that impact on people today. You’ll discover how to create a non-threatening environment that allows the mentee to speak candidly and how to build trust. You’ll use strengths development to help people realise their potential.

The book provides an in-depth description of a four-step method for leading a mentoring conversation focussed on career, with examples of questions, thought-starters, and discussion topics.

The toolkit includes over 50 guides, templates and activities for mentors to use with their mentee, and access to the video training programs Tools for Mentoring on career planning.