Question to ask to evaluate your mentoring process
From time to time it is necessary to evaluate how your mentoring process is going along. Do your leaders train other leaders? Do your leaders grow and bring forth fruit? Do you learn from them? The questions in this post will help you to evaluate your process of mentoring and training leaders.
Below are questions you can use to evaluate your process in mentoring leaders:
• Is there an agreement in place that outlines the mentoring relationship? (This doesn’t have to be a formal written document, but should be mutually understood.)
• Are my mentorees and I covering all the areas of life that make great leaders?
• Relationship to God
• Relationship to family
• Relationships with community and church (this includes peers and others)
• Relationships related to our call from God
• Relationships related to our job (how we financially support our families)
• Relationship to self (are we developing personally in mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical health)
• Is my mentoree mentoring others? (Are you meeting the mentorees of your mentoree?)
• What am I learning from my mentoree, including successes and failures? (If we are not learning from our mentorees, something is wrong.)
• Is there success in both of our lives as a result of the mentoring relationship? (Are we better people because of the relationship?)
• Is the relationship growing and changing?
• What could/should we be doing better to improve the relationship and the outcomes of the mentoring relationship?
• Have I made students or leaders? (Teaching and coaching is so much more easy than mentoring. I can focus on the material or skill sets without concern for now this is being used in leadership development. In true mentoring I have no choice but to know how the information or skill sets being learned are put to use in making more leaders. There is accountability.)
Source: David L. Watson
