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Managing Expectations for Long-Lasting Mentorship: Enhancing Communication and Relationship Skills

This workshop delves into understanding human expectations, fostering sensitivity, and learning tools to inform, educate, and inspire mentors, mentees, and coordinators. Explore factors affecting relationship longevity, correct perceptions early-on, and utilize skills to navigate misconceptions. With practical guidance and self-assessment exercises, participants will gain insights into effective communication strategies for successful mentorship.

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Managing Expectations for Long-Lasting Mentorship: Enhancing Communication and Relationship Skills

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  1. Expanding the Concept of Match Supervision: Helping mentors, mentees and coordinators manage expectationsto improve match longevity

  2. This workshop • Explore what drives people away • Understand how our human expectations are sometimes our biggest obstacles • Cultivating sensitivity and understanding • Learn new tools and learn from each other how best to inform, educate and inspire others

  3. The Facts about Relationships • Consistent contact • Match closeness or connection • Some shared interests • Social activity encourages closer relationships • Prescriptive vs. youth oriented approach • Strong connections early • Sufficient mentor training • Perceived lack of mentee motivation • Continuous agency support • Poor relationship skills • Unfulfilled expectations

  4. What is YOUR unfulfilled story? Turning on Your Skills & Tools To Use • Start with a CONVERSATION! • Learn how to REFRAME & rename! • Growth & Learning can be PARALELL PROCESS… notice what you are holding onto.

  5. NOT SO GREAT EXPECTATIONS

  6. Correct Perceptions Early On • Orientation Messages: What are you saying in your outreach? • Screening out those whose expectations are too lofty or unrealistic. • Deliver a training that helps lower expectations while keeping them interested and excited to be involved in something worthwhile. • Understand that every interaction can be a good time to correct misconceptions and every interaction with a mentor holds an opportunity to reframe challenges into opportunities.

  7. Your meeting your mentee today…. • What are you feeling just before your meet? • What happens when you come face to face with your mentee? • What does your mentee look like? • What do you do on your first visit with each other?

  8. Mentors’ Self Evaluation 1.______________________________________ 2.______________________________________ 3.______________________________________ 4.______________________________________

  9. Bruce Beckwith, Director of Services (212) 953-0945 bbeckwith@mentoring.org

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