Mentoring Strategies

Reflection

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1. Your protégée Molly comes to you for help. She has a problem and isn’t sure how to solve it. What should you do?

Share a similar experience of your own and tell her how to solve the problem.
Ask questions about the problem, elicit possible strategies, and help her to think them through and decide on a solution.
Identify alternative strategies and tell her which one you would pick.
Express your confidence in her problem solving ability, wish her luck, and share your own problems.

 

2. Your protégée seems to be overwhelmed by her new job as an adult education teacher and can’t seem to complete required tasks in a timely fashion. Your program administrator tells you Molly needs help. Which of the following would be your best course of action?

Work with Molly to improve time management and prioritization skills.
Ask Molly to list all of her job tasks, delete those least important, and then give her strategies for handling priority tasks.
Take you protégée to lunch and share your concerns about the program administrator dissing her.
Guide Molly to determine priorities, elicit alternative options for managing the job, and support her efforts to improve job performance.