Mentoring

Overview

Mentoring is a supportive, learning relationship for encouraging personal and professional growth. It involves sharing knowledge, experience and wisdom. It can help realise full potential and have benefits for all partners, (mentee, mentor and the organisation).

Key Outcomes

This course explores what it takes to be an effective mentor. Delegates will leave the course with an understanding of mentoring, and the skills, qualities and knowledge required to evaluate, stimulate and facilitate. They will recognise the benefits of mentoring to themselves and the organisation in which they work.

Duration

1 day

Content

• What is mentoring? Why everyone needs a mentor
• Skills and qualities of a mentor
• Assessing our own skills and qualities
• The unique nature of each mentoring ‘dyad’
• How to set Ground Rules and boundaries
• Understanding preferred learning styles
• The role of reflection
• Setting and achieving goals
• Evaluation, stimulation and facilitation
• Conducting effective feedback
• Using SNOB analysis to evaluate the current position
• Action planning for mentoring