Mentor’s Guide
A guide for mentors/trainers/HR of companies on professional skills development. This Guide contains theory and exercises adapted to Gen Z & Y needs.
The material focuses explicitly on the young employees in order for them to achieve excellence and accomplishment in their job. It includes relevant psycho-socio-economic considerations as well as best practices and exercises. The Guide contains chapters on problem solving, communication, time management, decision making and resilience. Some of the exercises also have environmental protection and green topics.
Communication
Problem Solving
Time Management
Decision Making
Resilience
What is the Mentors’ Guide of PROUD project?
It is a handbook designed for the workplace mentors, trainers of young employees. It offers theoretical knowledge and exercises, how to help the Gen Y and Z mentees with their professional skills development, and with creating their own mental welfare. The material is based on the latest concepts of positive psychology, supervision, coaching, game-based education, mindfulness, and aims at bringing innovation into mentoring.
The Guide has 5 chapters, based on what Gen Y and Z employees find especially difficult when at work. These are:
1 Communication
2 Problem solving
3 Time management
4 Decision making
5 Resilience
Chapters include self-reflection questions at the end of each chapter. These are meant to help mentors re-think their own existing mentoring practice. Whereas the Quizzes are to check whether the mentors can remember what they have read in the chapters.
The exercises are partly for personal talks with the mentees, partly for group activities with several mentees together. Some can be used repeatedly, to check the progress of the mentee.
Other useful tools of PROUD project are the ‘Map of Mental Welfare in the workplace’ and the ‘Mind-Balance Kit’. The Map help mentors and mentees discover / prevent / ease some possible work-related psychological problems. The Kit offers exercises for creating mental welfare.
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Map of mental welfare in the workplace
An eye-catching, easy-to use diagnostic tool for mentors. This material informs and warns about the most common mental health problems in the workplace among youth, highlighting signs and triggers.
This deck of cards is developed for the mentors, to help them start an introductory conversation with the mentees. The cards can be used for free associations to reveal how the young employee feels at work. They can pick the card(s) that best symbolizes their mental state at work.
Mind-balance kit
This Mind-balance kit for Gen Y & Z employees is a material on sustainable and mindful self-management in a workbook style. Through the kit, young employees can learn practical tips and hands-on techniques (e.g. mindfulness, positive psychology, resilience, job crafting), and they will be encouraged to reflect on their work-life.
The objective is to help them reach long-term job satisfaction and enable them to contribute proactively to the economy and society. These can manifest at organizational/societal level in better communication and cooperation, reduced stress, higher creativity, proactivity, tolerance, and willingness to take responsibility. The kit has a specific focus on burnout and depression, as these are the most common mental problems related to work among youth.
Project number: 2022-1-HU01-KA220-000086673
PROUD is an Erasmus+ project which aims at reinforcing individual well-being and professional excellence of working youth.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.