A Mentor's Conversation Guide

A practical guide for mentors and mentees who want their time together to be useful. It sets out what mentoring is and isn’t, how to prepare, and a simple four-part structure for each conversation: check in, the real question, options, one next step.

What’s inside

• What mentoring is, and what it isn’t
• Preparing for the first meeting
• A four-part structure for every conversation
• Forty good questions, grouped by theme
• Giving honest feedback kindly
• Boundaries and safeguarding basics for mentoring young people
• A printable session log