Parris King

Professional Mentor Workshop

Duration

1 day

Target Audience

This workshop is for mentors who are not the line manager of the mentee. They could be managers or technical specialists

Key Objectives

At the end of the one day workshop, delegates will be able to:

Use coaching to accelerate individual performance toward the graduate programme objectives
Create an environment of trust that accelerates the development of others so that they can more effectively contribute to the organization's goals
Understand and use approaches that develop self-reliance in others and maximise self directed learning

Outline

Introduction to mentoring

· Coaching vs. mentoring – which or both?

· Dimensions of Mentoring

· Phases in a mentoring relationship

· Evolution of an effective process

The Art of Mentoring

· Assess your mentoring talents

· The mentee/learners experience

· Mentor helping roles and behaviors

· Agreeing ground rules

Helping People to Learn

· The adult learning cycle

· Learning styles – make your approach appropriate

· Agreeing learning goals

Building Rapport through collaborative coaching

· The power of rapport

· Building Trust through Rapport – tips

· The lost art of listening - skill building exercise

· The mentee generates the outcome – solutions focused coaching exercise

· Tricky behaviors – the drama triangle and transactional analysis

Making the most of your meetings

· Mapping for learning

· Using open questions

· Three coaching structures

· Giving structured feedback that is understood and acted upon

· Sharing your own experiences in a non directive way

When it is not so straight forward

· Why might it go wrong?

· Fear of Learning

· Awesome queries

· Calming the crisis

· Switching perspectives exercise

· 3 dimensional approach to counseling

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