Mentoring Activities 
  The following are some examples of activities and learning opportunities that may help facilitate the development of the mentoring relationship between you and your mentee:

Exploring Personality Types 
1. Learn more about yourself and your mentee's personality preferences by taking an online version of a Myers-Briggs-type personality assessment.  
  • The Keirsey Temperament Sorter is available at www.advisorteam.com/user/ktsintro.asp . The online version of the Keirsey will assess your temperament free of charge, and will provide you with an opportunity to purchase a copy of your full report.  To find out additional information about the Keirsey Temperament Sorter and Keirsey's four temperaments, visit  www.advisorteam.com .
  • Humanmetrics also offers a free online modified version of the Myers-Briggs at www.humanmetrics.com .  The online version of the test offered by Humanmetrics will assess your personality type using the Jung- Myers-Briggs typology, and provide you with a description of your specific personality type and preferences.
  2.  Review the description of your temperament/personality type and share them with your mentoring partner.  

3.  Think about and describe your ideal work environment.  Ask your mentee to do the same.  Share your responses and discuss the ways personality preferences affect your ideal work situations.

4.  Use this as an opportunity to learn more about your mentee by further examining how he/she takes in information, receives energy, makes decisions, and functions in everyday life.   

For additional information about personality types, visit the the personality types page of this site or the following websites:

Additional Mentoring Activities

  • Participating in professional development activities such as continuing education conferences, seminars, regional and national conferences

  • Sitting at networking tables at conferences and seminars

  • Email messaging

  • Telephone meetings

  • Electronic voice chats

  • Videoconferencing

  • Shadowing (observing the mentor or another individual)

  • Visiting mentor’s job site

  • Face-to-face meetings (if distance is not an issue)

  • Sharing resources (human and material)

  • Joining professional list-servs

  • Electronic bulletin boards

  • Participating in DTAE Mentoring Program sponsored activities

  • Check-in conversations

  • Professional research and reading
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   

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