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Mentoring, Coaching, and Sponsoring Workshop

Mentoring, Coaching, and Sponsoring Workshop

As a manager, it’s important to balance your style between advice-giving mode (mentorship), active listening and curiosity mode (coaching), and empowering mode (sponsorship). In this workshop, we will define and practice each of these styles, and talk about how to know when to employ one over the other - especially when you’re managing people who work really differently than you do.

Lara Hogan

May 31, 2018
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  1. Advice is just one thing a mentor gives. There are

    residual benefits from visible proximity and tangential relationships to be gained.” “ — Kristy Tillman Director of Product Design
  2. Honesty Flexibility Reciprocity Qualities of a successful mentor relationship: Hilary

    Sanfey, M.B.B.Ch., M.H.P.E., Celeste Hollands, M.D., Nancy L. Gantt, M.D. Active listening Mutual respect Personal connection Shared values
  3. The spirit of coaching is helping a person dump out

    their box of legos to help them find the two pieces they’ve been looking for together” “ —Paloma Medina, coach and trainer
  4. The best open questions start with “what” • What’s important

    about this? • What’s hard about this? • What does success look like?
  5. • Can I reflect back what I’m hearing you say?

    • Here’s what I know to be true about you. • Let’s reflect on where you were this time last year.
  6. You don’t need prior experience, or even any idea about

    someone’s universe to coach them.
  7. The dashboards are slow today. Is there someone who knows

    how to fix that? Oh, Max fixed our dashboards before. Maybe ask them? Sara’s also been doing a lot of perf work recently. Ask her too?
  8. A sponsor confers a statistical career benefit from 22%–30% (e.g.

    getting a stretch assignment, negotiating a pay raise) Center for Talent Innovation
  9. With a sponsor, women are • 70% more likely to

    have their ideas endorsed • 119% more likely to see them developed • 200% more likely to see them implemented Center for Talent Innovation
  10. It’s risky for URMs to help others like them Study

    by David R. Hekman, Stefanie K. Johnson, Maw-Der Foo, and Wei Yang
  11. Examples of sponsorship as a manager or leader: • Give

    promotions and raises • Give visible/public recognition • Assign tasks and projects • Open the door for them to do blog posts, company talks, open source work
  12. Manager Direct Report Disseminate information Hear rumors, news, strategy Context

    Develop a relationship Does my manager care about me? Trust Identify goals/ career trajectory I want to keep growing my skills Growth Unblock them Get status updates I might need help getting unblocked Problem Solving
  13. Be on the lookout for people who: • will push

    you out of your comfort zone • have different levels of experience than you (both more experience, and less experience) • have experience in a different industry • are good at the things that you’re terrible at
  14. 1. Do great work 2. Find someone who knows your

    work 3. Know how you want to grow 4. Keep them updated
  15. 1. Do great work 2. Find someone who knows your

    work 3. Know how you want to grow 4. Keep them updated
  16. 1. Do great work 2. Find someone who knows your

    work 3. Know how you want to grow 4. Keep them updated
  17. 1. Do great work 2. Find someone who knows your

    work 3. Know how you want to grow 4. Keep them updated