1. Helps the Client to discover their beliefs, personal strengths, and abilities. For mentors this refers to helping the client in their specific niche market.
2. Enables the Client to increases their self-awareness in areas such as their perceptions; reality and assumption; their interpretation of events; and the rephrasing of their negative self-talk.
3. Helps the Client to discover where there are interrelated factors that affect their actions and their behaviour in the past, and what lessons are learnt to apply to future plans.
4. Challenges the Client to promote clarification, gain understanding, provoke new ideas, and improve their performance.
5. Invites the Client to acknowledge and recognise their own successes and realisations/learning’s.
6. Encourages the Client to come up with his/her own options and solutions.
7. Encourages the Client to explore the wider context, impact and implications of their options and desired outcomes.
8. Helps Client to explore their approach to change and works effectively with the Client to identify and overcome any resistance to change.
9. Facilitates growth in the Clients areas of thinking (cognitive), feeling (emotional) and doing (behavioural), as appropriate.
10. Helps the Client develop or re-develop their own self-assurance.
11. When appropriate or if necessary the Mentor may ask the Client if they require additional input from the Mentor.
12. Invites informed experimentation from the Client to develop powerful actions and leverage.
13. Supports the Client in finding ways in which the Client can become un-stuck.
14. Encourages the Client to stretch and challenge themselves to a level that is appropriate for them at any given point of time.
15. Encourages the Client to use their strengths and internal and external resources to achieve their desired goals.
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