The Protégé Project – Mentoring Mentees Across Your Organization


A great mentoring program is one of the best solutions towards creating your organization’s future leaders by grooming protégés, starting today.

Very few organizations know the true value of a creating a sustainable mentoring program and therefore even fewer have a truly great mentoring program.

In brief, a great mentoring program requires you to identify who is best suited to be mentor, who would benefit most from mentoring and to create a sustainable system that allows both to collectively boost your organizations profitability, performance and fulfillment levels.

Through “Mentoring Across Your Organization” you will experience a ground-breaking, fully-integrated, best-practices factored mentoring program that inspires both your Mentors and Mentees to step up towards meeting your organizations objectives, while enhancing their own aspirations too.

Both Mentors and Mentees Across Your Entire Organization

The ultimate purpose of this World Class Mentoring Program is multiple fold, as it will assist …

Your Organization to…

• Ensure speedy on boarding of new employees
• Significantly boost employee productivity, satisfaction and retention
• Build a sustainable leadership pipeline by catalyzing career growth and ensuring succession planning
• Have knowledge, expertise and experience shared across the organization to promote an innovative culture
• Enhance your organizations competitive advantages

Your Mentors to…

• Free up their time by discover a self directed system that eliminates the need to manage, motivate and monitor people
• Notice significant improvements in their mentoring, leadership and coaching ability
• Gain a tremendous sense of fulfillment through making a life shaping difference in the lives of other human beings

Your Mentees / Protégés to…

• Gain invaluable insights and accelerating their path to professional and personal success
• Enhance their mind sets, skill sets and business sets and play a more significant organizational role
• Put together a leadership tool set that they will use for decades to come

Part 1 – Exploring Mentoring

What Is Mentoring?

  • The “Who Am I” Game
  • The History Of Mentoring
  • How Mentoring Differs From Other Initiatives
    • Mentoring & Other Fields Cue Cards Game
  • The Benefits Of Mentoring For The Mentor & The Protégé
    • The Balancing Bottle / Mentoring Analogy
  • Various Mentoring Relationships
    • The Mentor / Protégé Relationship Game
  • Area Of Mentoring Focus
    • Establishing The 5 Key Areas Of Mentoring Focus

Part 2 – The Roles & Responsibilities Of Mentors & Mentees

The Individual Roles & Responsibilities Of The Mentor

  • The Dos & Don’ts Rules Of Engagement
  • Code Of Conduct

The Individual Roles & Responsibility Of The Mentee

  • The Dos & Don’ts Rules Of Engagement
  • Code Of Conduct

The Collective Roles & Responsibilities Of The Mentor & Mentee

  • The Dos & Don’ts Rules Of Engagement
  • Code Of Conduct

Part 3 – Appreciating Your Mentoring & Menteeing Personalities & Styles

Identifying & Appreciating Mentoring Personalities

  • Identifying Your Mentoring Value System
  • Appreciating Your Mentoring Personality

Identifying & Appreciating Menteeing Personalities

  • Identifying Your Mentee Value System
  • Appreciating Your Mentee Personality

Exploring Your Mentoring Styles

  • Exploring Your Mentoring Empowering & Limiting Strategies
  • Exploring Your Professional Mentoring Orientations

Exploring Your Mentee Styles

  • Exploring Your Mentee Empowering & Limiting Strategies
  • Exploring Your Professional Mentee Orientations

Part 4 – Mentoring & Menteeing Mind Sets & Skill Sets Enhancement

The Mind Sets Of World Class Transformational Leaders

  • Primary Transformational Leadership – Leading Yourself
    • The 7 Ps Of Primary Leadership
      • The Value of Principles
      • The Value of Proactivity
      • The Value of Problems
      • The Value of Patience
      • The Value of Profitability
      • The Value of Performance
      • The Value of Peace
  • Secondary Transformational Leadership – Leading Others
    • The 10 Dimensions Of Secondary Leadership
      • Raising Your Team’s Awareness
      • Knowing Your Team’s Personality
      • Clarifying Their Intention
      • Aligning Their Targets
      • Creating Opportunities For Them To Win
      • Building A Great Team Environment For Them
      • Coaching Them To Deliver Excellent Results
      • Inviting Them To Remain Coachable
      • Developing Their Competencies
      • Leading Your Leader
  • Tertiary Transformational Leadership – Leading Leaders
    • Expanding Your Leader Leadership
      • Regenerative Leadership
      • Benevolent Leadership
      • Effectuate Leadership
      • Especial Leadership
      • Erudite Leadership
      • Allegiant Leadership
      • Affective Leadership
      • Provocative Leadership
      • Amiable Leadership

The Skill Sets Of World Class Transformational Leaders

  • The Art Of Listening
    • Not Hearing
    • Hearing
    • Selective Listening
    • Active Listening
    • Emphatic Listening
    • Non-Emphatic Listening
    • Listening Beyond Listening
  • The Art Of Questioning
    • Questioning To Clarify
    • Questioning To Specify
    • Questioning To Explore
  • The Art Of Dialoguing
    • Distinguishing Discussions
    • Distinguishing Debates
    • Distinguishing Dialogues
  • The Art Of Crystallizing
    • Removing Doubt
    • Gaining Clarity
    • Establishing Agreement
  • The Art Of Actioning
    • Translating The Intangibles Into The Tangibles
    • Measuring The Meaningful
    • Focusing On The Target
  • The Art Of Feed-Backing And Feed-Forwarding
    • What Worked And What Didn’t Work
    • Thinking, Speaking And Actioning The Missing
    • What Is The Difference That Will Make The Difference
  • The Art Of Winning
    • Hitting Your “Ideal Life Situation” Target

Part 5 – The Mentoring Process

Formal Mentoring Versus Informal Mentoring

  • The Elements Of Informal Mentoring
  • The Elements Of Formal Mentoring

The Formal Organizational Mentoring Process

  • Setting Up The Mentoring Framework
    • Step I
      • Identifying Present Life Situation
        • Comprehensively exploring the present domains of Finances, Career, Business, Relationships and Life-In-General.
    • Step 2
      • Appreciating Historic Life Situation
        • Having a deep appreciation of the historical challenges and wins faced in the domains of Finances, Career, Business, Relationships and Life-In-General.
    • Step 3
      • Identifying Ideal Life Situation
        • Comprehensively exploring the present domains of Finances, Career, Business, Relationships and Life-In-General.
    • Step 4
      • Discovering Unique Psychometric and Behavioural Profile
        • Psychometrically identify your real motivators, empowering and limiting strategies and self-image.
    • Step 5
      • Exploring The Manoj Sharma Individual True Wealth Model
        • Using The Manoj Sharma Individual True Wealth Model to assist in gaining clarity, educate the foundation, develop the building blocks and coach the aesthetics of what it really takes to win at your finances, career, business, relationships and life.
  • Creating Enhanced Value Proposition Targets
    • Step 6
      • Gaining Clarity of Intention
        • Clarifying the 7 core areas of your values, passions, vision, mission, rewards, talents and identity.
    • Step 7
      • Establishing Dynamic Working Targets
        • Identifying your unique, specific, measurable, tangible, time-framed, aligned work & life- based goals in reality with the Partner, Team & I philosophy and Step 1- 5 as the underlying foundation to establish Dynamic Working Targets.
    • Step 8
      • Appreciating The Foundations of Success
        • Appreciating how critical it is to build a winning foundation by deepening your relationships with targets, opportunities, environments, masters and coach ability.
  • Ensuring 360° Focus & Delivery On Your Targets
    • Step 9
      • Reaching Out to Key Stakeholders
        • Reaching out to key stakeholders. Identifying your dream team of masters, mentors, guides and coaches.
    • Step 10
      • Inviting In your Dream Team
        • Inviting in your dream team of masters, mentors, guides, teachers and coaches by dialoguing your Dynamic Working Targets with them and identifying competencies required to “ Hit-The-Target ”.
    • Step 11
      • Gaining Buy In from your Dream Team
        • Initiating your 360° Coaching Dialogues with your dream team to map, analyze and appreciate present competencies. Starting to get everyone to appreciate the benefits of The Result is Your Guru philosophy.
    • Step 12
      • Opting Into your Dynamic Working Targets
        • Getting everybody involved and onto the same page with a clear focus of the what, when and how of your initiatives. Doing a reality check on what needs to be done and what it will really take to get it done.
  • Relentlessly Advancing Your Targets
    • Step 13
      • Delivering Well on your Dynamic Working Targets
        • Doing a Now-to-Now Mapping and setting milestones for your Dynamic Working Targets with Manoj Sharma’ s C.R.A.W.K. framework.
    • Step 14
      • Seizing Opportunities to Win
        • Systematically working hard and smart in a highly structured and methodical way by seizing opportunities to gain greater clarity, maintain higher levels of focus, while building momentum, experiencing breakthroughs, delivering wins and celebrating every step of the way.
    • Step 15
      • Truthing & Correcting C.R.A.W.K.
        • Becoming highly Profitability, Performance and Fulfillment Conscious and adjusting dynamically accordingly with feed backing and forwarding from you, your Dream Team and Dynamic Working Targets.
  • Measuring & Celebrating Your ROI
    • Step 16
      • Measuring Observable Outcomes & ROI
        • Fact-finding, collating, analyzing, and appreciating ROI through 360º Coaching Dialogues and PRO.PER.FUL MATRIX factoring in past, present and future advancement, achievement and accomplishment.
    • Step 17
      • Celebrating Together
        • Reflecting on advancements, achievements and accomplishments as a team and keeping a clear focus on creating an even more powerful future with the High Value Executive Coaching as a foundation.
  • Creating The Framework To Build Upon These World Class Wins
    • Step 18
      • Championing Forward
        • Exploring how best to Create a Coaching Organization where all key stakeholders are certified as competent professional coaches and the rest of the organization is not just opened to and prepared to immediately benefit from coaching in a sustainable and scalable, profitability, performance and fulfillment enhancing way.

Part 6 – Kick Starting Mentoring Across Your Organization

  • Attaching Mentees To Mentors
  • Kick Starting Your Organization Wide Mentoring Process
  • Creating Mentor / Protégé Agreements
  • Continuing Forward With The Protégé Project


This 2 to 3-full day (depending on your needs), completely experiential, immersive and perspective shaping initiative is expertly run as a series of world class …

Illuminating introductions
Engaging Dialogues
Interactive games & exercises
Thought provoking debriefs
Open questions & answer sessions
Reflection time-outs
Relevant case studies
Enriching assignments
Feedback loops

… with optional follow on professional coaching to assist your organization towards greater profitability, performance and fulfillment levels.

Duration of Initiative

14 – 21 facilitator lead hours depending on the depth your organization requires

The initiative can be delivered over …

1) 2 to 3-Days consecutively from 9am to 5pm
2) 2 to 3-Days interspersed over time from 9am to 5pm
3) 7, 2 to 3-hours blocks of time at your convenience

You are welcome to further talk to us about adjusting the timing to your organizations flexibility.

Your lead facilitator for this world class initiative is Manoj Sharma.

Who is Manoj Sharma?

Manoj Sharma is a World Class Organization Strategist. He assists organizations, teams and individuals to be financially and non-financially wealthier through a series of incredibly “spot on”, fully customized strategic initiatives. Mr. Sharma is also the Founder, CEO and Head of Faculty of DifferWorld.com, an international strategic profitability, performance and fulfillment consultancy. Over the years Mr. Sharma has earned a reputation for not just being a global thought leader, but also his reputation for delivering world class initiatives that assist the global who’s who win in their fields of endeavour is fast becoming legendary.

Mr. Sharma has extensively worked with tier one organizations and leaders across Asia, Europe, Oceania and The Middle East, as a Strategic Consultant, Executive Director, Group Business Development Director, Marketing & Communication Director, Content Director and more. As such he brings with him a truly global perspective with an intimate appreciation of local challenges.

What can Manoj Sharma Do For You?

Mr. Sharma specializes in assisting organizations, teams and individuals boost their profitability, performance and fulfillment levels through a combination of world class strategic consultations, keynotes, coaching, training & development seminars, workshops, courses, programs and other initiatives.

Who Are Some Of The Organizations He Has Assisted?

His initiatives have exponentially benefited some of the top global brands such as:

Accenture, Alcatel, American Express, A&W Restaurants, Cisco Systems, Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, Civil Service College, Cargotec, CitiBank, Daikin Industries, DBS Vickers Securities, Deutsche Bank, FedEx, Fuji Xerox, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Hiab, HSBC, IBM,
Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, Intel, JP Morgan, Kalmar, KFC, KPMG, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Long John Silver’s, MacGregor, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, Nokia, Singapore Ministry of Education, Motorola, National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Philips, Pizza Hut, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Raffles International, Reuters, Samsung, Singapore Airlines, Singapore Economic Development Board, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Singapore Institute of Management, Singapore Management University, Singapore Technologies, Singapore Tourism Board, Starbucks, ST Microelectronics, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp, Sybase, Taco Bell, The Coca-Cola Company, The Walt Disney Company, Union Bank of Switzerland, United Overseas Bank Kay Hian, Young Arab Leaders, and more

See Manoj Sharma’s list of clients and partners

How Many People Has Manoj Sharma Worked With?

To date Manoj has worked with more than 80,000 individuals globally, from senior leaders onwards, across diverse industries and has professionally coaching more than 700 people.

Want to get in touch with Manoj Sharma?


We will deliver for you a World Class Initiative that is…

Ground Breaking
Absolutely Unique
Expertly Researched & Created
That Addresses Your Specific Needs
And Gives You Unexpected High Value Solutions

So what are you waiting for … do get in touch with us now and let us know how we can assist!