Mentoring Training with Transactional Analysis

Do you want to accelerate your career development, get a raise or promotion, create a team that produces, wins and earns more? Do you want to achieve higher success in business? The key to success lies in being a good mentor.

Mentoring is an important daily life skill that you can apply to every aspect of your life, which can lead you to success, make you stand out among your competitors, get noticed and shine with your unique qualities. In addition, this skill not only leads you to success, but also enables you to lead those around you and rise with them.

Research shows mentors receive promotions and are more likely to earn raises. A study by the Association of Talent Development US (2020) found that 80% of executives believe mentoring was key to their success, and 80% of millennial employees surveyed expected their manager to mentor them.

In today’s fast-paced, competitive world, being a good mentor has become even more important for every individual who interacts with other people. Doing so using the principles of Transactional Analysis will turn you into a master of awareness and communication and make you stand out among other mentors.

Mentors

Mentors, in the most general definition, are trustworthy, more experienced or more knowledgeable people who provide insight, feedback and advice in a particular area of expertise. They provide guidance to less experienced or less knowledgeable people.

Mentoring is an agreement between the mentor and the mentee; it is a way of supporting the individual’s progress and learning process in the relevant field.

Mentor

Mentees who receive mentoring from their mentors make a professional investment in their own success. Mentoring aims to enable mentees to perform at a high level, to successfully accelerate their careers, to connect more deeply with the vision and mission of the profession, to have a long-term performance with a successful approach within a specific framework, and to improve their professional progress and skills.

Being a mentor offers you additional opportunities to practice leadership, develop your communication skills and emotional intelligence. Even if you are at the peak of your career, mentoring is a great way to continue expanding your network and create a legacy for future generations.

Being a TA Mentor who can integrate mentoring with transactional analysis has many benefits for you, your mentee and your organization.

Transactional Analysis is a theory developed based on psychology and communication theory. This theory, together with the integration of its approaches with coaching, is a model used in many educational and business fields such as coaching services and psychotherapy to understand the basics of relationships and communication, life roles, and to transform them into healthy forms.

TA theory states that individuals have different ego states that can be experienced simultaneously and that these states are reflected in our lives and determine our life script.

The Transactional Analysis Theory, inspired by the personality theories of SIGMUND FREUD and combined with his own observations by the creator of the theory, ERIC BERNE, enables us to become masters of communication analysis in our private and professional lives. The combination of TA with mentoring opens all the doors to success for you.

This training is designed to help you on your way to becoming a TA mentor in a way that you can easily use in your daily life and business relationships.

A good TA mentor is aware of the needs of the people around them. They are aware of the value they add to their environment with the steps they take by analyzing these needs correctly. They know the keys to building sustainable relationships. Since they analyze the other person well, they know with whom they can work more efficiently and with whom they can maintain healthier relationships. They have developed the ability to uncover the potential of others. They know how to overcome difficulties in relationships.

In this training, you will learn how to:

• Get clarity on the value you bring as a TA mentor
• Identify and select your ideal mentee
• Build your mentoring skills
• Overcome common obstacles to mentoring relationships

In this training, you will see how both Transactional Analysis theory and mentoring work together. In this way, you will also have the opportunity to analyze different types of mentor-mentee relationships. By identifying the responsibilities in a mentor and mentee relationship, you will demonstrate the value you can bring to your mentees.

Trust is essential in the mentor and mentee relationship. As you choose your mentee with whom you can build mutual trust, you will realize the steps of the trust relationship established between you.

A good TA mentor knows how to guide his/her mentee and how to overcome the obstacles in the relationship. He/she can ask the right and powerful questions at the right time to guide his/her mentee with the right narratives.

This training aims to ensure you become a great TA mentor. When you complete this training you will have achieved the following objectives:

• Define the characteristics of mentoring engagements with Transactional Analysis
• Compare different types of mentoring relationships
• Identify the different responsibilities of mentor and mentee
• Describe why you want to mentor and the value you bring to your mentee
• Identify and select your ideal mentee(s)
• List concrete techniques for building trust with your mentee
• Summarize how to guide your mentee to craft a clear mentorship objective
• Explain how to build your mentoring skills in asking powerful questions, listening and using signature stories to share your experience
• Name concrete techniques for overcoming common obstacles in mentoring relationships

This training is open to everyone from various fields, with different experiences, who are committed to learning and developing. If you belong to any of the following groups of people, you can participate in this training, which MCC Fatih Elibol has compiled from his experience and professional knowledge, and you can achieve the success you want.

• Leaders, managers, current and aspiring mentors
• Individuals who have a desire to contribute to other people’s growth and success
• Individuals who are committed to pay it forward by serving two or more cycles as mentors
• Individuals who see mentoring as a life-long journey
• Managers who need skills to guide their employees
• Subject matter experts who want to mentor junior professionals
• Leaders who want to give back by helping the next generation navigate successful careers
• Peers who want to support their colleagues’ success through peer mentoring
• Skilled junior employees who want to share their perspective up the leadership chain through reverse mentoring

In the Mentoring with TA training, you will see how you can improve your mentees’ effective communication competencies, active listening, asking powerful questions, creating awareness in your mentees, and how to analyze relationships with all your experience and knowledge in the process of becoming a mentor. Most importantly, as a mentor, you will also realize the importance of enabling a mentee to gain the skills to manage their own development and responsibility.

Contact us to learn the details of this training and start your mentoring, management, leadership and coaching journey with MCC Fatih Elibol.