LEARN HOW TO BECOME A MENTOR
WHAT IS MENTORING?
Mentors work with others in their organisation guiding, advising and sometimes coaching them in management or specialist skills. Mentoring is a useful way of empowering subordinates to make decisions and implement them and then use their mentor to review the outcome.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:
- Your role as a mentor
- Distinctions between mentoring and coaching
- Developing a mentoring relationship
- Working effectively as a mentor
- Essential skills of mentors
- Behaviours to avoid as a mentor
- Planning your mentoring
- Evaluating your own mentoring performance
HOW WILL YOU BENEFIT FROM THIS COURSE?
- Learn how to provide career guidance, personal support and independent feedback
- Increase in “corporate” knowledge / wisdom
- Personal fulfilment
- Improved leadership and mentoring skills
- Improved communication skills
- Increased visibility and recognition as a “developer of people”
HOW WILL YOUR ORGANISATION BENEFIT FROM THIS COURSE?
- Increased employee commitment and retention
- Organisational learning
- Facilitation of change management
- Breeding of uniform company culture
- Improved productivity
- Improved communication through business and breakdown of department barriers
DURATION
1 day
SUGGESTED COURSES, MODULES AND PROGRAMS TO COMBINE WITH
- Coaching course
- Performance management course
- Practical management skills course
- People development module
- Leadership program
- New and emerging leaders program

