...course overview

This Course is designed to help establish and/or enhance a mentoring culture in organisations.

Mentors work with others in their organisation guiding, advising and sometimes coaching them in management or specialist skills.

This popular course, delivered in-house to organisations, looks at the role of mentors in the organisation as well as developing core skills in mentoring. The course helps people enhance core skills in Mentoring. It also examines challenges and issues that mentors face and identifies strategies to meet these challenges effectively.

The course is interactive and helps develop useful practices that can be used in general management as well as specifically in mentoring.

This course can be tailored as an in-house program to reflect the key mentoring issues faced by mentors in the organisation, its culture, values and changing directions.

.....key content

• System for mentoring in your organisation
• Your role as a mentor
• Distinctions between mentoring and coaching
• Developing a mentoring relationship
• Working effectively as a mentor
• Essential skills of mentors
• Behaviours to avoid as a mentor
• Planning your mentoring
• Evaluating your own mentoring performance

...what objectives can I
         achieve?

1. Identify the system for mentoring in your organisation
2. Identify your role as a mentor in your organisation
2. Work effectively as a mentor
3. Meet challenges and issues in mentoring