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Mentor Development Program
Program Summary
Professional Development Day
MENTORS
In order to reduce valuable workshop time participants may be provided with pre-course reading to enable conceptual understanding to be established.
SESSION ONE
The “role” of a mentor
- A series of roles – facilitator, adviser, connector etc
- Definitions of mentors and mentor competencies
- Role Comparisons (mentoring- counselling- supervising)
- Scope of Mentoring (support – challenge- facilitating vision)
SESSION TWO
Developing and Building Trust
- Characteristics of good mentors and mentees
- Mentors - Matching
- A positive mentoring “relationship” - characteristics
- Developing “trust”
- Possible blockages to mentoring
SESSION THREE
Developing “Self” as a Mentor
- Hallmarks of “being yourself”
- Mentoring Behaviours – (sociability, dominance, openness)
- Mentor Skills in Action
- Core practices of facilitating - models
- Mentoring for skills
- Mentoring for goal setting
- Focus of mentoring
- Skills and Behaviours of Mentoring
- Communication skills
- Attending, Paraphrasing, Reflecting, Probing, Elaborating
- Understanding body language
- Listening
- Questioning
- Mentoring behaviours – feedback
SESSION FOUR
Mentoring within the work context
- Implementing the program – suggested activities, planners
- Preparing for your plan – logistics, sample growth plans
- Evaluating
- Support Action & Follow-up
(All participants receive a work folder containing learning materials and exercises for their own development as a Mentor)
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