Keeping people going
Featured in the Continuing Professional Development training manual
By Sandy McMillan
Category: Personal Development
Credit price: 3 download credits (Single user)
This activity continues to develop participants’ mentoring skills by reviewing some factors which have not yet been covered in detail, and then practising them; they include: using reflections as a tool of mentoring, taking account of people’s feelings, and what to do about notes.
You use OHTs to present the advanced active listening techniques of reflecting, particularly reflecting feelings, and facilitative note-taking and discuss these briefly with the participants. Participants practise the techniques by taking it in turns to mentor a session in which the mentee’s feelings are involved. The training activity ends with a summary of the participants’ observations and an individual action-planning session.
Who is it for: This training activity is intended for use by trainers to broaden and deepen participants’ ability to support and mentor one another by giving guided practice in some more advanced techniques of solution-focused mentoring. Again, participants get feedback to help them build a repertoire of helpful tactics.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 2 |
| Max Group Size: | 12 |
| Typical Duration: | 01:35:00 |
| No of Pages: | 18 |
Resources: View standard resources for Fenman training activities
Purpose: Use this activity in the middle stages of a CPD programme, after you have run one or two involvement activities to gain participants’ commitment, and after you have also given people practice in mentoring skills with the training activities, ‘Helpers, Not Interrogators’ and ‘Getting the Whole Picture’. It will continue to improve people’s mentoring skills, and to strengthen rapport between participants.
Download the training activity, Keeping people going as featured in the Fenman training manual; Continuing Professional Development