Making it work for you
Featured in the Continuing Professional Development training manual
By Sandy McMillan
Category: Personal Development
Credit price: 3 download credits (Single user)
This is a training activity to draw together all the strands of mutual mentoring and start people off in pairs to work on the actual CPD activities. It sets out a useful structure for mutual mentoring sessions so that people can start off on the right foot.
Using OHTs, you present a five-stage structure for a typical mentoring session and develop this by setting out the detailed structure of each of the five stages. You then offer some advice on how to achieve an effective balance in the mentoring session. In their mentoring pairs, participants take turns as mentor to practise a session which covers all aspects of the structure. To provide a relevant vehicle, the mentee talks about their perceptions of what has been happening in the earlier learning events of the programme, and considers options for improving learning. In the full group, you facilitate a short discussion on the learning points that came from the practice session. Individuals then complete their personal action plans to end the training activity.
Who is it for: This training activity is intended for use by trainers to provide mentoring pairs with a structure for planning how they will work together in the weeks and months following the learning event, and helps them to schedule the way ahead.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 2 |
| Max Group Size: | 12 |
| Typical Duration: | 01:25:00 |
| No of Pages: | 16 |
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Purpose: Use this training activity as an introduction to activities 13 to 21 from ‘Continuing Professional Development’, which deal directly with CPD. It can also be a summary of activities 1 to 11 from ‘Continuing professional development’, which deal with involving and supporting people in their CPD programmes.
Download the training activity, Making it work for you as featured in the Fenman training manual; Continuing Professional Development