Essential Mentoring Skills

Essential Mentoring Skills Workshop– for CoP Mentors

Target Audience: Led by: Anna Sheather, External Tutor (Elan Coaching)

Brief Outline: This half day workshop explores how to be a mentor and how to set up and run a successful mentoring session. It looks at the key attributes of being a good mentor, the roles & responsibilities of both the mentor and mentee, and what is required to build a good mentor/mentee relationship. By then end of the workshop participants will have a good idea of what is involved in a mentoring relationship, have tried out key mentoring skills and know whether it is for them.

What you can expect to learn: You will:

• Have a clear idea of what mentoring is

• Understand the differences and similarities between coaching and mentoring

• See who can be a mentor and the attributes that make a good mentor

• Know when mentoring is the right approach and when it is not

• Be clear about the roles and responsibilities of both the mentor and mentee in a mentoring relationship

• Understand how to build a strong mentor/mentee relationship

• Know how to set up and run a mentoring programme and have some tools to help you

• Have tried out some of the key skills required for mentoring

• Be aware of problems that can arise and how to address them

• Be able to assess if you want to become a mentor and what additional development you may need to do this

• Be given references to follow up if you wish to explore the subject further

  Date: 13th May 2015

  Venue: Building 34 / 5007