 and welcome back thank you for tuning in thanks for watching anyone that's watched me before you may have noticed I've gotten you hurt so I'm not used to it yet comments below if you think it's okay let me know if you think it's terrible put it back to brown let me know be honest be blunt that's what I need to be honest I like the end bits the end bits are like a nice the lighter rose gold that I wanted but she's done the top bits a little bit too purpley ideally I wanted some natural rose gold just little bits in my hair and so it all blended in nicely together and it's kind of all pink right now so it's a little bit much I think is a bit much and I've been asking for people's opinions on social media the general census I think people like it but if you look back on my previous blogs I had very dark brown hair before so it's a bit of a change I'm getting used to it so bear with me guys so let's get back to what we were talking about so the hard workshops are amazing every student should be aiming to get into the hard scheme because it's fantastic and the amount of opportunities you're gonna get and these workshops are just incredible so Wednesday we had the coaching and mentoring and it was just again a fantastic experience and I learned so much from this workshop so we started off by Kev talking us through how to successfully coach a mentor somebody and by you should be asking someone rather than telling someone so you should be asking open more open questions to people so if they someone's coming to you for advice or problems you should be asking the you know how why what tell me and these sort of questions make you feel as a person if someone's asking you okay so why is that it gives that person a sense of empowerment so you're really empowering someone by asking those questions they're gonna feel really valued and like you're actually interested in them and what they've got to say and to listen to them and something really interesting from the session that I found out about the word mentor and where it actually originates from is from actually from Greece and so when the Greeks went to war the children were left with what they call this mentor actually reading up about the role of the mentor the mentor was actually a teacher sort of person that prepared the sons for what would happen if the family member died out at war so preparing them for those responsibilities and to train them in a way I was really interested about it so I just had a little google had a look up about it and one of the sons of Odysseus Odysseus I hope I've said that right and he actually went to the goddess Athena and she was his mentor and she guided him I thought that was really cute and really nice way of actually explaining what a mentor could mean to somebody we also spoke about the differences between what a coach is and what a mentor is and some of the descriptions that we came up with were that coaching's more of a it's a do it now you know you're being trained or and you're being shown something or a specific thing relevant to the now rather than something that's over a period of time which is what we think mentoring is and mentoring is something that you're sort of learning and building up over a long stretch of time rather than here and now learning anybody anybody's got any comments on this anyone's got any other ideas what you think coaching or mentoring the differences is please comment below your input will be amazing I'd love to hear what everyone thinks about that because there's no right or wrong in this everything means something different to everybody it's the way our brains are it makes us unique an individual I keep saying this so I really love here and what other people think about these things so please comment and then when speaking about mentoring we talked about the famous quote about give the man a fish so you give a man a fish and he can fade himself for the day but if you teach a man how to fish he can feed himself for a whole lifetime and I think that's such a great quote when we're talking about mentoring because you don't want to just give somebody the answer you want to coach them and mentor them through it so that they sort of realize how to do these things on their own so once coming to your problem you don't want to just be like okay here's how to solve the problem you want to question that person in a way that enables them empowers them to come to the conclusion themselves I think that's just such an incredible thing to do and it's not really something I've thought about before so just to enable us to get an understanding of how to do that Kevin Jackie both set us up some tasks we were split up into two separate groups Kevin took one side Jackie took the other side of the groups and they told us a genuine problem that they had and they wanted help with and we had to use all these techniques of the how the what the why just to coach and mentor them through the problem so that they can come to some sort of realization on their own and a solution and this was just amazing I loved getting involved I was a bit stuck at one point I was sort of thinking oh gosh what can I ask like this is such a simple solution but how can I make them realize that and it's actually quite difficult I found to sort of think okay so what am I going to ask what am I going to say so it's definitely something that I'm going to need practice with I'm going to need to practice with friends maybe with other colleagues my partner probably and hopefully I'll get better becoming my own mentor and coach because ideally that's what I want to aim to be when I'm a qualified nurse I would love to be that good mentor and coach for somebody else for my own student one day and then we had another task where kev gave us these diagrams and I'll show you mine because I've got mine at the minute we had to pair up with somebody we had to sit back to back so we couldn't see each other and I had to explain this diagram to the other person so that they could draw what I could see but without them seeing it so I had to sort of explain it and be really specific so that they could get inside my head and draw exactly what I could see without them seeing does that make sense it was a great task I thought it went really really well and we had to mark ourselves out of ten and we gave ourselves a seven so I think we did well the only downfall areas we had I think was I think I was trying to be too specific so I was saying things like oh this is two centimeters this is six centimeters because my two centimeters is like okay that's about two centimeters to me but what two centimeters means to me doesn't mean that the other person has a clue what two centimeters is or if that's even right I still haven't measured that is that two centimeters probably not I need a ruler but so I think that's where we went wrong where I maybe could have asked that person what does two centimeters mean to you but all in all our diagrams were pretty much spot on to be honest the one of the lines was a bit wonky and went through the other little bit but that's the problem realistically it it was kind of spot on I think we did really well as a team and it was just good to see the different communication that you can have with somebody so that was really good and I'll go show you the thing now okay so this is the diagram can you see that how complicated that is I looked at it initially and I was like how am I going to explain this to somebody like how where do I even start on this thing so that was it and I started here with the small square and I worked my way up across down there and then this part so I'll explain the square square straight line triangle and then back to the circle line really hard to do I suggest if everybody should do this with somebody because it is really good exercise I came home and I did it with my partner so this is what my partner drew that's apparently that can I just say she does not listen to me trying to explain things and now there was no listening skills from that end of the room so but it was a great exercise it was so much fun to come and test it out on somebody else it was really good and I really advise other people to do it and try it with their partners or family members or friends it's quite fun and it's very hard so well done to Jackie because I had Jackie teamed up with me so well done to Jackie for being amazing and getting it so all in all this session has been amazing I've learned so much I've got to practice more about my mentor and coaching and it's literally it's all about empowering somebody else giving that power to them working together in a partnership with somebody and just enabling them to become their best self as well as you being your best self so all in all Haas is amazing I love these workshops so much if you're not part of the Haas scheme yet you can be so don't worry about it please sign up please come to the workshops because it's fantastic and you're really missing out if you have signed up and you're not coming to these workshops I just I love every single minute of it so thank you Haas team thanks to Kevin and Jackie because you're fantastic I love being part of this team I'll see you all next week for a new vlog I'm all about my week it's my first week back I'm so excited I can't wait to get started on this next module and I shall see you all next week