Mentoring Activities
What other activities might a mentee and mentor do together? Here are a few activities that you might consider. However, what you do is up to you and your mentor/mentee.
- Attend a relevant meeting, workshop or conference together. Afterwards discuss and reflect on the event, what occurred, what was learned, etc.
- Go to breakfast or lunch together either as a mentoring meeting or for fun.
- Have the mentor introduce the mentee to people in the industry that could help the mentee achieve her or his goals.
- Discuss the projects you each have worked on and the lessons you learned.
- Share your resumes and talk about how your different positions have supported your career goals.
- Take the Myer-Briggs® Type Indicator or a similar personality type evaluation, which will help you understand each other better. (A free personality type evaluation is available at www.humanmetrics.com.)
- Tour each others work sites.
- Share tips on professional reading (books, blogs, web site, journals).
- Co-author an article together.
- Role-play a challenging work situation in order to understand possible outcomes.
- Discuss trends in librarianship, the information industry or the CLRC region.
- Attend a non-work event together.
- Read and discuss the same book.
- Visit another library (where neither of you work).
- Jointly conduct an information interview with another librarian/information professional.
- Meet for coffee.
Posted on 07/15/08