Essential Mentoring Skills
Training
Inhouse
Description
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Type
Training
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Methodology
Inhouse
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Duration
1 Day
Students will learn: Understand what a mentor is (and what it is not) and why it is important. The essential factors of a good mentoring relationship. How to demonstrate the key characteristics, skills and behaviours of an effective mentor. Building rapport, supporting and challenging, helping set development goals, encouraging, using questioning and active listening techniques, giving feedback and advice and how to draw on your own experience. Draw on a practical framework to help you structure the phases of your mentoring relationship. Suitable for Technical Mentors.
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Course programme
Description:
The one day course focuses primarily on the skills and behaviours required of a mentor supporting the developing engineer or technician.
The course will cover the practical skills to help mentors manage relationships with mentees, develop rapport, have powerful conversations, give difficult messages and genuinely help the individuals they mentor to fulfil their potential.
What you will learn:
- Understand what a mentor is (and what it is not) and why it is important. The essential factors of a good mentoring relationship
- How to demonstrate the key characteristics, skills and behaviours of an effective mentor
- Building rapport, supporting and challenging, helping set development goals, encouraging, using questioning and active listening techniques, giving feedback and advice and how to draw on your own experience
- Draw on a practical framework to help you structure the phases of your mentoring relationship
- Be more aware of your personal skills and impact and be prepared to be flexible to enhance your mentoring capabilities
Use your personal ‘mentoring toolkit’ to continue developing your skills following the course.
(In-Company programmes are often suitable where there are company schemes.)
Additional information
Essential Mentoring Skills