Mentor with Your Talents, Not Your Title

About this episode

This episode discusses a strengths-based approach to mentoring that emphasizes inclusivity and accessibility over traditional seniority-based methods.

What if mentoring had nothing to do with seniority — and everything to do with strengths? In this Squiggly Shortcut, Sarah makes the case for a more inclusive, more accessible approach to mentoring that every team can make happen straight away. 🎯 What You'll Learn – Why strengths-based mentoring is more useful than traditional senior-to-junior mentoring – Three ways to make it work: one way, two way (strengths swapping), and one to many – How to make your ask for mentoring specific, easy to say yes to, and genuinely flattering to receive – Why building a spreadsheet of team strengths could be one of the most useful things your team does this year 📚 Resources Mentioned Episode 122 — How to make your strengths show up and stand out For questions about Squiggly Careers or to share feedback, please email: helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com Need some more squiggly career support? Download our free career tools Sign up for our Skills Sprints Sign up for our Squiggly Careers Newsletter, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools Order our new book Learn Like a Lobster Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Sarah

Topics covered

• mentoring
• strengths-based approach
• team collaboration
• inclusive mentoring
• career development

Keywords

• mentoring
• strengths
• team strengths
• career tools
• inclusive mentoring

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Squiggly Careers, Squiggly Careers Newsletter

Books & works: Learn Like a Lobster, Episode 122

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