Mentoring
Featured in the Developing People: The Manager's Role training manual
By Caroline Love
Category: People Management and Motivation
Credit price: 3 download credits (Single user)
Mentoring can help develop the person in the wider context of their own career aspiration and the organisation’s ethos and values, as well as their current experience, knowledge and skills. Mentors can offer mentees experience, distance, balance, perspective and wisdom, in addition to career opportunities and contacts. A mentoring programme is a vital element of a staff development strategy.
Participants identify the characteristics of mentoring prior to defining the term ‘mentoring’. They continue by exploring the benefits for mentees, including looking at the political implications of forming such a relationship. This is followed by an exercise to write a letter to a chosen mentor emphasising the benefits of mentoring for mentors. In the final exercise, the participants develop a learning contract for mentoring. Alternatively, participants carry out a SWOT analysis for introducing a company-wide mentoring scheme. This alternative is for use with an in-house group of senior managers who need an opportunity to explore what extent mentoring is to be offered as a development opportunity in the organisation.
Who is it for: This training resource is intended for use by trainers to enable participants to find out about mentoring.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 4 |
| Max Group Size: | 20 |
| Typical Duration: | 02:40:00 |
| No of Pages: | 18 |
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Purpose: This training resource is intended for use by trainers as part of a programme on developing people: the manager’s role, this training activity is an opportunity for participants to consider how they will have their needs met. The training activity can also be used on a management or personal development programme, or a programme to introduce mentoring to an organisation.
Download the training activity, Mentoring as featured in the Fenman training manual; Developing People: The Manager's Role