Use the following checklist to familiarize yourself with the Alberta Mentorship Program, understand your role as a mentor, and plan your approach to mentoring.
- Review the Alberta Mentorship Program Expectations
- Review your mentor role expectations
- Use the mentoring stages to help plan your approach to mentoring
- Review the secrets to mentoring success
- Prepare for your first meeting with your mentee
- Draft a meeting agenda
- Prepare a Mentorship Agreement and a Mentorship Code of Conduct to create a foundation for future meetings
- Develop your intercultural competence to support your mentee better
- Understand the Canadian workplace culture and the job market for your mentee’s profession
- Listen to your mentee and provide honest and helpful feedback
- Give an outside perspective to your mentee’s ideas and challenges to support their job search
- Hold your mentee accountable for the goals you set together
- Share stories and advice based on your experience to help your mentee with decisions and challenges
- Provide contacts from your network who may be able to help your mentee