Mentoring

A mentor is anyone who goes beyond their normal work responsibilities to offer knowledge, insight, or a different perspective to someone else. The relationship provides a safe environment of trust in which employees can reflect without being judged. Find out all about mentoring in this topic.

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For our learning journeys we use our proven excite, engage, embed method to ensure the learning experience is engaging and the learning is sustained. The full details of the programme are shown below.

Course Code: OV-MEN

  • This is available for individuals, groups and teams

  • half-day live session delivered virtually or in-person | 6-8 hrs on-demand learning | 30-minute coaching session (optional extra for teams)

In this workshop, you will learn the latest essential skills and techniques required to work as an inspirational mentor.

Effective Mentoring at Work is a workshop that is practical and skills-based using real situations and focusing on personal feedback and action planning. Learning methods include discussion, break-out room role-play, theory, practical tips and hints and action planning.

The aim is to build your knowledge and skills of this highly rewarding activity to develop a range of mentoring styles to support the mentee to the benefit of the individual and organization. The workshop includes ideas on the mentoring ‘contract’ and managing expectations in a busy workplace as well as evaluating the effect of mentoring activity.

Effective Mentoring is recommended for individuals taking on a mentoring role for the first time or developing existing skills.

The course would particularly benefit managers who wish to engage and inspire people in other teams and areas of the business in terms of tackling challenges, building skills and supporting their longer-term career aspirations.

  • Understand the mentoring role and responsibilities
  • Describe the skills of an effective mentor
  • Create a supportive environment for the mentee
  • Use a simple but effective process for conducting mentoring meetings
  • Maintain a realistic and practical approach when managing difficult developmental issues

 

The Role of the Mentor

  • What is Mentoring?
  • The different mentoring approaches – directive vs non-directive
  • The Key Skills of mentoring

The Mentoring Meeting

  • The mentoring contract – why is it important
  • Creating a mentoring contract – what to include
  • The initial meeting – 10 points for success
  • How to structure your meetings
  • Active listening and questioning skills
  • Adopting a style that meets your mentee's needs – balancing challenge and support
  • Giving constructive feedback to your mentee
  • Practice role-play and feedback

Addressing Difficult Issues

  • What difficult issues might your encounter during the mentoring relationship?
  • What to do if things go wrong

Action Planning

  • How will you further develop your mentoring skills?


 

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Live session delivered virtually or in-person. Up to 15 people per programme.

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Effective Mentoring in the Workplace

Effective Mentoring in the Workplace

Course Code: VILT-MEN

  • 90-minute live session delivered virtually or in-person (Perfect for use as part of a blended learning programme)

  • This is available for groups and teams

Mentorship can be highly rewarding for both mentors and their mentees. Through this relationship both parties can gain new perspectives, expand their existing networks, grow their confidence, and develop as professionals. 

As a mentor, you can play a pivotal role in someone’s career development; you might just be that person they will look back on in a decade’s time and see your input as the turning point for their career success. Becoming a mentor gives you the opportunity to share your knowledge and experience, to support personal and professional development, to make connections, and to inspire excellence. 

On this workshop you will learn the essential skills and techniques required to become an inspirational mentor. You will learn to develop a range of mentoring styles to support the mentee to the benefit of individual and organization, and will focus on how to balance challenge and support for your mentee.

  • Are you looking for something extra to give you a real sense of fulfilment at work?
  • Are you passionate about developing other people and strengthening your organization’s talent base?
  • Are you keen to develop your leadership skills?
  • Would you like to increase your visibility and influence within your organization?
  • Have you considered becoming a mentor but are not sure what it involves?

By the end of this course you will be able to:

  • Define wellbeing and the impact on organizations and individuals
  • Describe the mentoring role, responsibilities, and key skills required
  • Create a supportive environment for the mentee
  • Adopt an appropriate mentoring approach to bring the best out of individuals
  • Maintain an appropriate balance of challenge and support
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Online Learning

Our award-winning learning content library is expertly created, easy to consume, and visually engaging and it can be experienced through a range of modalities - Fluidbooks, videos, animations, podcasts, infographics, quizzes and more. Use our digital learning content to support on-demand or blended learning provision within your organisation. Hundreds of topics are available in multiple global languages.

Mentoring

Mentoring

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  • Mentoring Infographic
  • Mentoring Fluidbook
Mentoring
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Find out more about our learning content… we provide a range of formats and media types to support different learning styles, and time pressures and to keep the learning engaging. Find out more about the different modalities and view some examples…

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