Business Seminar - Effective Mentoring

Who is course for?

To ensure mentoring is as effective as possible it is important that all mentors are suitably skilled to support and develop their colleagues. This half-day workshop will provide an opportunity for attendees to evaluate their mentoring roles, reflecting on theory and practice to optimise the success of their workplace mentoring programmes. This could include those involved with in-house mentoring programmes and those responsible for mentoring apprentices.

Benefits of attending:

Mentoring can be and extremely valuable way to develop the full potential of team members. Effective mentoring supports not only the development of technical skills but also the development of productive behaviours and organisational culture. Many people remember a mentor who has been instrumental in their development and this half-day seminar explores ways in which individuals and organisations can optimise their mentoring programmes.

Course Content:

• Develop understanding of what mentoring is, as distinct from training and coaching
• Develop understanding of the scope & limits of the mentoring role
• Personal reflection on own experiences as a mentor and mentee
• Stages of development and reflection on each
• How mentoring can support a learning journey
• Adding value as a mentor and tracking progress (including recording processes)
• Identify different mentoring styles
• Pre-empting potential barriers to successful mentoring and ways to overcome them

The seminar will be facilitated in such a way to encourage thinking and discussion around the mentoring programme to focus attendees on how it can be as effective as possible.