Product Overview

The first section of this workbook aims to help you understand what mentoring is, how it works and what its main characteristics and components are. The second section looks behind the mentoring relationship at the skills and the personal issues that support effective mentoring – both for a mentor and for someone using a mentor.

Target Audience

• Newly appointed team leaders or supervisors
• Anybody wanting to develop a particular management skill

These materials are designed to develop and update skills of potential, newly appointed and experienced supervisors, team leaders and managers, offering a choice of flexible, work based materials to improve individual and organisational performance.

Objectives

• Explain the mentoring process and its contribution to the organisation and individuals within it
• Describe a pattern of mentoring that is workable and practical
• Explain the skills and attributes needed by an effective mentor, and by someone working with a mentor
• Plan a mentoring relationship using a simple sequence of activitie

List Of Contents

The mentoring relationship
What mentoring is?
What a mentoring relationship is not about?
The benefits of mentoring
Why mentoring matters to organisations?
Benefits for the mentor and the learner
What makes a mentor?
The mentor, What a mentor does
The skills needed by a mentor
The learner, What makes a learner
How to operate as a learner in a mentoring relationship
Balance in the relationship
Introduction
Setting up a mentoring scheme
Mentoring at work
Planning and implementation
Aims and objectives
Developing a mentoring relationship
The first meeting
Further mentoring meetings
The final meeting
Mentor reviews
A learner review
Reviewing mentoring
Ending on a high note

Price/Cost Options

This workbook as an off the shelf product is priced at £28.50. Discounts available on quantity. Any adapted or customised version will be POA.