As our clients grow their mentoring programs, we are receiving requests for more advanced mentoring training for experienced and veteran mentors. As a result, we've created additional mentoring resources that zero in on the deeper work of mentoring that experienced and veteran mentors seek.
This January, in celebration of National Mentoring Month, take your mentoring, or your organization's mentoring, to a whole new level with The Mentoring Excellence Difference: A Short Online Course with Dr. Lois Zachary!
Taking Your Mentoring Practice to the Next Level is a new workshop that focuses on skills and practical tips in three areas that make a real difference: relationship building with a focus on trust, goal setting and achievement, and feedback. 
Mentoring excellence can only be achieved when mentoring partners engage in continuum of good conversation, yet our research indicates that staying in conversation can be problematic. This year we developed our Levels of Conversation model to help mentors and mentees collaboratively engage in meaningful conversation. We developed illustrative case studies and role-plays to help facilitate their learning.
As part of our work to help mentors and mentees deepen and advance their relationship, we launched our Mentoring Success: Six Conversations That Make a Difference webinar. In it, we present a series of models, tips and role-play examples. Participants are able to listen in and reflect on mentor/mentee conversations and apply their own insights.
Questions frame conversations and asking the right question at the right time is an important element in helping mentees learn. We've created a Probing Questions Reference Sheet that offers a set of questions mentors can ask to enhance conversation throughout the mentoring relationship.
Reflection is key for personal growth and development. This year we developed a tip sheet entitled Reflective Questions for Mentees that offers a series of reflective questions to help mentees drive their thinking and spark conversation with their mentor.
One organization's mentoring challenge became a better solution for all of our clients. When their mentees struggled giving feedback to a senior leader, and their mentors were reluctant to give candid feedback that might compromise the relationship, we responded by creating Feedback: a Seven-Step Process. These steps guide mentors and mentees in how to give feedback to a mentoring partner. Both models (one for mentors and one for mentees) include real world examples to demonstrate how to apply each step.
When one client wanted a tool for tracking mentoring progress, we created our Mentor and Mentee Assessment Tool, which helps mentoring partners stay on track and benchmark their practice against the 10 best practices in mentoring. This handy tool is useful throughout a mentoring relationship as a way to track mentor competency. It can be used early in the relationship and later on as a success measure.
Our most popular resource, our Mentoring Excellence Pocket Toolkits look better than ever, thanks to our publisher, Jossey-Bass, who gave these on-the-go references a much needed facelift. We are getting positive feedback about the practicality and quick access these resources provide for both mentors and mentees.
