Mentoring in the Workplace
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)
Summary
Location & dates
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Overview
This thought-provoking, skills-based programme looks at what it takes to achieve mentoring excellence. We explore the essential skills mentors need and give practical guidance on setting up, or developing existing, mentoring schemes and the pitfalls to avoid. Good mentoring is about developing someone’s independence. We pay particular attention to the skills of non-directive mentoring where mentors enable mentees to think more for themselves and learn to solve their own problems. This is what mentors’ find the hardest to do and yet it is where the real benefits lie.
Description
Introductions, course and participants’ objectives
Defining mentoring
- what mentoring is, what it isn’t
- how it differs from coaching, counselling, training
- mentoring styles
Being an excellent mentor?
- Skills, attitudes
Powerful questions and interventions in mentoring
- Developing the skill to ask thought-provoking questions and make observations that shift your mentee’s thinking
Contracting
- pairing mentors and mentees
- contracting
Establishing mentoring in your organisation
- getting the design right for your organisation
- what need to be communicated and to whom?
- responsibilities of mentors and mentees
- ongoing mentor support
- consistency in contracting within your business
- evaluation
- avoiding typical problems
Helping mentees review their work performance
- levels of communication
- skills practice
Managing mentoring meeting
- Using the ‘GROW’ model in mentoring. The ‘GROW’ model is most commonly found in Coaching but provides Mentors too with a useful framework to work by
- Helping Mentees ublock their blocks to performance
Skills practice
- demonstration
- ‘live’ skills practice in small groups
Who is this course for?
Mentoring in the Workplace is a one-day course recommended for those considering taking on a mentoring role for the first time or developing their existing skills, as well as those involved in establishing or developing an existing scheme. Whether you’re looking to enhance your career as a mentor within your workplace, or you’re a first-time mentor, this course will help you develop your mentoring style.
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