From the course: Developing a Mentoring Program
Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.
Action learning project
- People learn well by doing and teaching others. Action learning is when proteges and mentors create a mutually beneficial work related project that has a specific deliverable. Action learning projects can serve as a glue binding mentors and proteges together. Three benefits of action learning include: 1. Gives mentors and proteges a thing to focus on in the form of a specific project to work on together. 2. Remedies the mid-mentoring program blahs, where sometimes mentors and proteges run out of momentum. 3. Results in a deliverable that can be shared and measured. Action learning projects can be as diverse as are the interests of your mentoring program participants. They can be based around strengths a protege needs to develop, like, say, presentation skills. Or they can be based around something a mentor wants to get done but just never has the time or resources to make progress on. To get started in developing action learning projects, do the following. First, ask your mentors to…
Practice while you learn with exercise files
Download the files the instructor uses to teach the course. Follow along and learn by watching, listening and practicing.
Download courses and learn on the go
Watch courses on your mobile device without an internet connection. Download courses using your iOS or Android LinkedIn Learning app.