Mentoring attributes

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DISC: Knowing our own personality and behavioural traits offers great scope for developing our strengths and working on our weaknesses.

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DISC: A mentor with a 'D' dominant trait could be more likely to 'tell' their mentee what to do, than to listen to the mentees ideas.

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DISC: A mentee with an 'S' steadiness trait could be more likely to find a mentor with a high intensity 'D' dominant trait, which is not modified by self-awareness, as domineering.

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DISC: A mentor with an 'I' influencer trait could be more likely to keep sessions positive by offering the mentee lots of options.

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DISC: A mentee with a 'C' conscientious trait could be more likely to find a mentor with a high intensity 'I' personality trait, which is not modified by self-awareness, as lacking in the detail.

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Self-talk: What are some of the key distortions that come from negative self-talk?

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Black and white thinking - good or bad, success or failure, no shades of gray

Overgeneralization - drawing conclusions from a one-off situation

Blaming - either of yourself or others

Catastrophizing - making a mountain out of a mole hill

Self-talk: How can you reduce negative self-talk?

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Get to know your voices - who is really talking?

Get to know yourself - your personality, your behaviours, your thinking habits

Turn down the volume - deliberately paying attention to something else

Dis-identify with your self-talk through meditation

Mindset: Caroline Dweck's identified two opposing mindsets, a fixed and a growth. Those with a fixed mindset will:

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Tend to embrace feedback

Tend to avoid criticism

Tend to embrace challenges

Tend to avoid challenges

Mindset: Those with a growth mindset will:

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Tend to ignore feedback

Tend to embrace new learning

Tend to feel threatened by the success of others

Tend to see effort as the road to mastery

Blind spot: What is your blind spot, as referred to in the Johari Window, created in 1955 by Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham?

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What you keep hidden

What other hide from you

What you don't see, others do

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How can you best identify what is in your blind spot?

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Reflect on what you don't know

Reflect on what you know

Invite 360 degree feedback

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Blind spot: What might be some examples of someone's blind spot?

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Saying 'no' when you mean 'no'

Unconsciously valuing being right over being effective

Expecting the best from life

Not seeing or realising the negative impact you are having on others

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