The Effective Mentor
Duration
1-day
Target Audience
Directors, line managers and technical managers who have a responsibility for developing others who are not in their direct day to day line of responsibility.
Key Objectives
What are the benefits?
The day makes a case for mentoring; including the longer term career development of individual's at all levels within the organisation, in order to retain key people. A focus is made on the effective use of coaching to support effective mentoring.
What does it cover?
What mentoring involves
- mentoring vs. managing
- benefits of mentoring
- the range of activities which the role of mentor could involve
- the organisational perspective
The mentoring manager
- Initiation - fears and expectations, agreeing a mentoring contract, establishing trust
- Growth - Core agendas, agreeing objectives, problem solving model, career development conversations
- Maturity
Helping people to learn
- 4 most common ways of learning and learning styles
- cycle of learning
- opportunities for development; internal and external
- identifying performance gaps
Mentoring relationships
- differences between coaching and counselling
- counselling and when to counsel
- a simple approach to counselling, and when to let go
- a simple framework to coach, giving and receiving feedback
