Mentoring Skills

Introduction

Mentoring has gained recognition as a highly effective human resource development process, especially in career development, training and change management. It is a process in which a person with a greater skill or experience teaches, counsels, and encourages a less experienced person for the purposes of personal and professional development.

Mentors build the self-confidence of protégés and help them in their endeavours to become more effective at work and in their personal lives. They are usually people, other than a person's immediate supervisor, to whom that person turns, for nonthreatening and impartial support.

This workshop will help participants learn about the ways in mentoring programmes can be facilitated in an organisation.

Designed For

This workshop will be helpful for:

• HR professionals required to implement mentoring programmes in their organisations.
• Executive who are requested to mentor protégés

Competencies Addressed

Ability to mentor protégés.

Workshop Objectives

On completion of this programme, participants will be able to:

• State the benefits of mentoring
• Describe an effective Mentor-Protégé relationship
• Build a mentoring partnership
• Describe best practice in mentoring
• Implement a mentoring programme

Model Reference

Transformational Mentoring.

Learning Approach

This programme will be conducted in a practical and participative way. Learning strategies include small group discussions, skills practice sessions, and videos.

Duration

1 Day

Course Outline

• Introduction to Mentoring
  - The concept of mentoring
  - Purpose and benefits of mentoring
  - Career and psychosocial functions
  - Integration with development
  - Mentors-roles and responsibilities
  - Protégés-roles and responsibilities
• Transformational Mentoring
  - Responsiveness
  - Transaction
  - Transformation
• Building a Mentoring Partnership
  - Criteria for selection and matching
  - Key competencies
  - Formal agreement
  - Potential problems
  - Documentations ethics
  - Implementation guidelines
• Best practices
  - Small group discussions
• Implementation
  - Making the Business Case
  - Implementing a Process mode