A one-day workshop
This in-person mentoring skills training programme provides an understanding of the skills and behaviours needed for successful mentoring. It will help you use a mentoring approach in formal and informal situations, and help you find collaborative and meaningful approaches to how you engage and communicate with others. You will understand the behavioural aspects of mentoring and how to align them with your organisation’s values.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the background to mentoring
- Understand the skills, tools and behaviours a good mentor needs and be able to demonstrate them in practice
- Understand the boundaries of the mentoring role
- Understand the benefits of mentoring
- Review and evaluate learning to take back and apply in your role
Workshop information
Workshop outline
1. Welcome, aims and introductions
- Thinking about our personal challenges
- Learning objectives
2. Morning session
- Understanding mentoring:
- What is mentoring and where does it fit in?
- Identifying the core skills and behaviours a good mentor needs
- Mentors pull, they don’t push
- Understanding and exploring a non-directive model (Pull / Push model)
- The skills and tools required by a mentor
- How will you communicate effectively with your mentee?
- Non-verbal communication
- Active Listening skills
- Rapport and compassionate feedback: using a feedback model
- The right environment: how will you create the right environment that is collaborative, accountable and compassionate?
- Ethical behaviour:
- What are the boundaries of the mentoring role? How will I behave ethically?
- How can I build a trusting and respectful relationship?
3. Afternoon session
- Barriers and challenges to mentoring conversations: how can I overcome any barriers there might be to effective mentoring relationships?
- Applying the skills, knowledge and experience to the mentoring role
- How to draw on mentoring skills in practice: introducing a process framework
- Skills practice
- Using feedback from observation and mentoring skills practice experiences
- Tips and guidance
4. Action planning
- Review
- Personal action planning
