Mentoring
Mentoring
Personal | Professional
As a coach I often come across clients who need advice and direction in how to best communicate in different circumstances such as preparing a sensitive meeting with their boss or with their employees, how to best construct a letter of motivation or prepare a job interview. Since communication has always been a strength and thanks to the many tools I have learned and used over the years in my professional life I take great pleasure in helping other to shape their thoughts and messages in a way that clear, authentic, structured and objective.
What is Mentoring?
Mentoring is a process of support, that includes discussions, advice, and learnings. The mentoring I propose is two-fold and is geared to help you communicate more effectively whether it is for written communication, such as email response or motivational letters or oral communication such as preparing for sensitive meetings or job interviews.
How does it work?
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- important written documents and motivational lettres
As with coaching, the mentoring sessions are carried out over Zoom. If you have existing documents (Email response, letter, etc…) that you wish me to review, you can send them to me via email and we can go through the changes together.
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If you are looking to create a letter of motivation from scratch, I generally ask for a copy of your CV and also of the job description so we can build a relevant letter that fits the job criteria while infusing some of your achievements, personality and experience.
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The duration of sessions highly depends on how far along you are in creating the documents or how much help you need. They tend to last between 1h and 2h.
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The idea is we always start with what you need and work from there.
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- difficult meetings and job interviews
For job interviews, as with motivational letters, I will ask for a copy of your CV and of the job description and any other information/instructions that you might have received in view of your interview.
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In the session we combine your know-how and professional background with communication methods to best structure and deliver the information. The focus is always on what you personally apprehend or find difficult so we can optimise our time. For some of you, it’s dealing with certain fears or questions, for others it’s about presenting oneself… You’re all different and that is why I don’t have a fixed approach. I adapt sessions depending on what will be most useful to you. And I’m happy to say that although we can never guarantee success in these matters, a lot of my clients (Some of whom were quite terrorized at the thought of going to their interviews) were able to succeed, sometimes with flying colours!
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As for preparing for difficult meetings such as performance review meetings or feedback-based meetings, I generally ask the client to expose the context and what they want to achieve or communicate. We then built together all the necessary elements, arguments, notions, depending on the situation. The idea is to formulate clear objectives, messages giving equal importance to substance and the form. “What message do I want to deliver and how do I deliver them”. Sometimes it also entails preparing for potential responses as in all communication, our interlocutors could say no. Then it’s possible to look at areas of negotiation.
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Interested?
If you'd like to know more don't hesitate to read all the testimonials published on the site. Otherwise, you can always get in touch via the form below, I will be very happy to answer to any of your questions.
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