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Mentorship

INVESTMENT REQUIRED
 1 hour every two weeks
 Mentee to join your review meetings or project meetings, or shadow “One Day in Office”
 Willingness to ask and answer questions
 Occasional coaching of mentee on how to drive and set goals.
 Select appropriate subjects/projects to share with the Mentee

Motivation
• What energizes you?
• What activities absorb you and make you lose track of time?
• What excites you about your work or organization right now?
• What don't you like about your work or organization?
• What was your favorite job and why?
• What was your least favorite job and why?
• Which job assignments have given you the most or least challenge?
• If you had to choose between working with people, data, things, or ideas, which combination
would make you happiest?

Strengths and Weaknesses


• What are your greatest talents or skills?
• What are your greatest challenges or weaknesses?
• What skills or knowledge do you have that make you unique?
• What accomplishments are you especially proud of?

Areas for Development


• What are the top areas where you would like help?
• What focus areas did you identify during your connects as needing development?
• How willing are you to work on your weak areas?
• How motivated are you to build upon your strengths?
• Which specific strengths or weaknesses do you want to work on first?

Short-Term
• What do you want to achieve in your current role?
• What do you picture yourself doing in 5 years? In 10 years?
• What do you see as the next step in your career at Microsoft or outside of Microsoft?

How can I help?


• What specific help do you seek from this mentoring partnership?
• Work and improve my leadership skills towards achieving a people management
position

• Do you have specific goals, or do you need help to write them?


• Leadership Skills
• Achieve a management position
• Learn how to be a good people manager

• How do you prefer to learn? (Learning styles include learning autonomously, learning socially,
reading content, or interacting with media.)
• Online learning
• Books
• Feedback and coaching
• Hands-on

• Do you want me to help you explore Microsoft resources, such as classes, books, or
presentations?
• I am already taking some online courses, but any help will be good.

• Do you want me to help you find information about jobs or other groups?
• My expectation is not to move right now so we can review this one on the way.

• Do you want me to introduce you to people that may help you with your goals or who work in
your areas of interest?
• Yes

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