Mentor Well — The Mentor Mindset

The Problem

"Guiding young people and newcomers is hard: push too hard and they resist, cushion too much and they never grow. Yeager's research shows a better way that works across ages and settings: hold high standards and give real support at the same time, with respect for the person in front of you."

What you'll achieve

Outcomes you can expect

Recognise your default: enforcer, protector or mentor
Explain the why, ask before you tell, and respect status
Help people use stress, find purpose and feel they belong
Give wise feedback, scaffold skills, and plan your mentoring

The science behind it

What you'll learn

Yeager's mentor mindset and why respect matters so much to young people
Transparency statements and questioning
Stress-can-help reframing, purpose for learning and belonging stories
Wise feedback and scaffolding that fades as skill grows

What's included

Everything you get

27 tools across 7 modules, 13 of them built for this course
A reader for every module, built from the tools and checked against them
An audio guide on every tool and a course audio guide
Private fillable workbooks for 26 of the tools, kept on your own device

Who it's for

The right fit

Designed for For peer mentors, residence and society leaders, tutors and teachers, coaches, managers of young staff, and parents.

Most of us guide someone, and most of us fall into one of two habits: the enforcer, with high standards and little support, or the protector, with plenty of support and low standards. A companion to David Yeager's 10 to 25, with Adam Grant's Hidden Potential and Gregory Walton's Ordinary Magic, this course builds the third way: the mentor mindset, through respect, transparency, questions, stress and purpose, belonging, wise feedback and scaffolding.

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High standards with real support: how to guide young people and newcomers well

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