The Complete Mentor’s Guide to Using ChatGPT to Review, Reflect, and Improve Your Sessions
- Nicki Deeson
- Aug 26
- 4 min read
How often do you end a mentoring session and wonder, "Did I ask the right questions? Did I really help my mentee?"
Reflection is the heartbeat of effective mentoring, and it's not always easy. ChatGPT's powerful reflection capability can help you assess your mentoring questions and your impact, and deepen your post-session reviews, improving your mentoring and the value for your mentee. Reap the benefits today by following this step-by-step guide based on tried and tested techniques from the Business Supervisors Group.
Contents
#1: Why is ChatGPT a Game-Changer for Mentors?
Reflection matters in mentoring: Acknowledging what we do well, and how we can be even better, helps us grow and be the best for our clients.
As mentors, we know this, and yet reflection often feels rushed or surface-level. ChatGPT can help by automating, speeding up and deepening each session review. When ChatGPT compares a mentoring session to best practice, it identifies blind spots, patterns and growth opportunities that we miss in self-reflection. And that makes us a better mentor.
Think of ChatGPT as a non-judgmental reflection partner, which helps you:
Analyse your sessions objectively — pointing out strengths and opportunities.
Generate new ideas — from better questions to fresh frameworks.
Spot patterns over time — so you can see your growth as a mentor.
Hold yourself accountable — by prompting action steps for next time.
#2: Step-by-Step Guide: How to Use ChatGPT to Review a Mentoring Session
Step 1: Ensure your clients are aware you are recording sessions and why For your next new mentoring client, include a paragraph in your agreement notifying them that your sessions will be recorded. A sample paragraph to use in your contract is below: "Mentoring sessions are recorded. Recordings and transcripts are only used for my self-reflection and development. Recordings are stored for one month and transcripts are stored for four months. Before sharing any of your session recordings with a supervisor or assessor, I will always ask your written consent for the restricted release of a particular session recording. You may record any sessions/parts of sessions for your own purposes. If you would prefer that none of your sessions are recorded please let me know." Step 2: Record your session and create an AI transcript/summary
Once clients are aware you will be recording the mentoring, make it happen for all their sesssions. Zoom, for example, produces a good transcript as part of the recording package, and can be set to record all sessions as standard.
If recording isn't possible, for example, if your session was face to face, then instead type up your recollection of what happened: key themes, your approach, and how the mentee responded.
Step 3: Remove identifying details Don't be tempted to go through the transcript line by line - assume it will be good enough! The only vital task, in relation to your transcript, is to use the "find and replace" function to remove identifying details eg client/mentor names and email addresses, and replace them with something simple, eg "Client" and "Mentor". This is for GDPR purposes.
Step 4: Ask ChatGPT for a review
Open ChatGPT (use google if needed).
Decide what you want to review, which may be a full mentoring session, part of a session, an AI summary or your notes from a session. Then type in your request. NB if you are using the free version of Chat GPT then you may need to split an hour-long mentoring session transcript into three sections, and upload each part separately, in order to meet the text size limits. This is included below.
Example:
“Please can you take my recent mentoring session transcript (which I will paste in three sections - Section 1, Section 2 and Section 3). Then please review [all three sections] against the ABM [or EMCC] mentoring] competencies. Give me feedback and ask me questions to help me reflect on this mentoring session, to consider what happened, what went well, and what I can improve as a mentor?”
Step 5: Explore deeper questions
Dig beyond the surface by asking ChatGPT further questions. Example:
“What alternative questions could I have asked to encourage more self-discovery?”
Step 6: Identify action steps Ask ChatGPT to help you shape practical improvements. Example:
“Suggest 1-3 things I can try to do differently in my next mentoring session.”
Step 7: Talk to your mentee and/or supervisor
If ChatGPT highlights a question that may have been helpful for your mentee, share it with the mentee themselves. This may lead to a surprisingly rich discussion at your next mentoring session! Also, take your questions from the ChatGPT review to your next supervision. For example, you may want to explore your feelings about suggestions made, you may like to consider different perspectives on what will really be most valuable for your client, or you might role play a new approach that was suggested by ChatGPT.
#3: Conclusion
The best mentors never stop learning. By using ChatGPT as a reflective tool, you’ll uncover fresh insights, challenge your assumptions, and step into each session better prepared than the last.
Schedule time in your diary now, once a week, to upload a session transcript and take ten minutes with ChatGPT to reflect, refine, and re-energise your practice.
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