Mentoring, Coaching, and Sponsoring

This desk is part of the attendee preparation for our workshop Leading Engineering Teams For New Managers.

It's the context for Day 3: Mentoring, Coaching, and Sponsoring. For the video and transcript to go with these slides, check out its resources page on our site.

Transcript

1. Mentoring, coaching, and sponsoring Growing your teammates
2. Four different hats • Mentoring • Coaching • Sponsoring • Delivering feedback
3. Mentoring
4. A good mentor • Respects, challenges, and pushes the mentee • Has more experience • Supportive on their goals • A good listener • A good guide • Sets expectations, defines rules, and sets goals • Any question is a good question • Calibrates responses to their level and their needs • Available and patient
5. Sponsoring
6. Remember that members of underrepresented groups are typically over-mentored, but under-sponsored — Lara Hogan
7. Coaching It moves the focus from "me the mentor", to "them, the mentee". In a nutshell, it is "Say less, ask more"
8. A good coach • Ask more open questions • Reflect • Active listening • “You talked about a few things, which one should we start with?”
9. Sample questions • What do you want? • What's most important to you about it? • What's holding you back? • What does success look like for you? • How can I help? • If you’re saying yes to this, what are you saying no to? • What was most useful for you? • What are you optimising for?
10. SOON or GROW SOON GROW Success Goal Obstacles Reality Options Options Next steps Way forward
11. Focus on motivation • On a scale from 1 to 10, how excited are you about this plan and possible outcome? • On a scale from 1 to 10, how confident do you feel about the plan working? • On a scale from 1 to 10, how confident do you feel in your ability to make it happen? • What would increase your score by one point?
12. When coaching, we don't need to have all the answers, or fully understand the problem