Introduction to Business Mentoring
Are you the type of person who is passionate about supporting individuals to achieve their potential? Do you enjoy sharing the benfit of your experience with others, giving them hints and tips that will enable them to achieve more, faster? Do you enjoy offering advice and guidance to others?
Mentoring provides a platform to: provide motivation, increase confidence, provide role models, encourage networking, and provide support for newly promoted individuals to develop and master their new roles and resposnibilities more smoothly, quickly and effectively. Through mentoring, you can expect to develop and retain talent within your organisation.
Workshop Benefits
Through this programme you will learn the skills that will enable you to:
- Establish an effective mentoring relationship
- Apply mentoring skills to get the most out of your meetings
- Structure the mentoring relationship to support your mentee to achieve his/her goals
- Establish boundaries within the mentoring relationship
- Define your own mentoring style
- Wrap up the mentoring relationship in a psoitive and productive way
Workshop Content
This 1 day workshop covers 4 key areas.
Part 1: Defining Mentoring
- Clarifying what mentoring is and what it is not
- Examining the purpose and value of a mentoring programme to an organisation and the individual
- Benefits of Mentoring - for the mentor and the mentee
- Understanding the role and responsibilities of a mentor
- The difference between mentoring and other interventions such as coaching
Part 2: Mentoring Styles & Skills
- The qualities and characteristics of an effective mentor
- Key mentoring skills
- Development of mentor profile
- Topics to discuss with the mentee
- Model for managing the conversation
- Working with action plans
Part 3: Overcoming potential pitfalls
- Wrapping up the relationship in a postive way
- Turning away prospective mentees
- Challenging mentees to take a leap
- Managing your own expectations
- Managing the mentee's expectations
- Managing the 'over enthusiastic' mentee
- Encouraging the 'de-motivated' mentee
Part 4: The mentoring agreement
- Mentoring Agreement - location, mediums, timing, boundaries, confidentiality, transparency
- Ethics
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