The Best Mentoring Program for Your Organisation
1. WORKSHOP RATIONAL
Mentoring is acknowledged to be one of the most effective ways of growing and developing staff of all ages. It maximizes the power of sharing and learning among junior and senior staff. It is important that the approach is “formal” for as good as many “informal” programmes are, people often get lost as the informal approach depends on people finding their own mentors. A formal approach ensures that the targeted staff are mentored. In the workshop mentor and mentee attend together so that maximum “bonding” is achieved and includes a coaching session for the mentor/mentee pair. The progamme works best when run for an organisation wanting to implement a formal mentoring scheme.
2. WORKSHOP OUTCOMES
By attending this workshop you will understand:
- History and Rise of Mentoring in Organisations
- Role Expectations Supervision, Coaching, Mentoring – the differences
- Do’s and Dont’s for Mentors and Mentees
- Common values and skills for mentor and mentee
- The first meeting – expectations, topics and skills
- Three levels of the learning model for mentees and mentors
- Development Plan, Journal and Checklists
- Challenges for mentor and mentee
- Career Development
- Networking
- Personality Style – its impact of the mentoring relationship
- Cultural style – its impact on mentoring relationship
- Stages of relationship development
- Conflict style and Assertiveness
- Working with Gender – male/female brains
- Mindsets and Self fulfilling prophecies
3. METHOD
The workshop will be highly practical with a mixture of short content inputs and interactive/experiential exercises. Individual and group exercises will enable participants to gain a real appreciation of culture’s influence on behaviour and communication. The workshop concentrates on ensuring that the mentor/mentee pair achieve real understanding of each other. Numerous business case studies and dilemmas will be used. Methods will include: – short lectures, interactive/experiential exercises, Individual exercises, group discussions, simulations, role-plays, and paired discussion. The programme includes a mentor/mentee pairs coaching session.
4. WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- Anyone about to enter into a mentoring relationship
- HR managers developing mentoring policies