Mentoring Skills

This one day mentoring skills course is a highly interactive and practical course which enables participants to develop effective mentoring tools and models for immediate application.

A particular focus on developing practical mentoring tools and techniques to provide support and structure to assist mentors with their ongoing mentoring commitments.

Suitable for the mentoring of engineers seeking Chartered Status as well as for all other personal and professional mentoring responsibilities.
 

Recognised for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) by Engineers Australia (EA) in accordance with EA CPD Guidelines.

Target Audience

For new and experienced mentors who want to gain a better understanding of structure, tools and techniques to carry out the mentor role more effectively and with less time and energy.

Course Outline

Overview of Mentoring

Definition and role of mentor and the different ways that mentoring can be used.

Key questions around mentoring.

• Why be a mentor?
• What are the do's and don't of mentoring?
• What mentoring is and what mentoring isn't?
• How does a mentoring conversation differ from other supervisory and management conversations?
• What is the role of mentor and what is the role of mentee and how does it all come together?

Structuring the Mentoring Relationship

• How to structure a mentoring relationship and setting the boundaries around this relationship.
• How to run your first mentoring session and subsequent sessions.
• Keeping the mentoring relationship as effective and fruitful for both parties and how to keep the focus and momentum in the relationship.

Mentoring Tools and Techniques

• Effective listening and questioning, story telling, self reflection and conversational practises in mentoring
• Tools and techniques that can be applied immediately in the role of mentor.

Mentoring Application and Practice

Participants are encouraged to put into practice some of the mentoring tools and techniques and reflect on how these can be implemented in their role as mentor.

Putting It All Together

• How does this all fit together?
• Commit to actions moving forward.

Mentoring for Chartered Status

This course deals with mentoring in the formal vs informal, technical vs nontechnical and personal vs professional. Mentoring for Chartered Status is also covered and comparisons made with other forms of mentoring (similarities and differences).

Course Objectives

At the end of this course participants will be able to:

• Identify their outcome of being a mentor
• Appreciate what a mentor is and the importance of this role
• Understand the benefits for both mentor and mentee in this relationship
• Understand what makes for an effective mentor
• Gain an appreciation of the difference between mentoring conversations and other conversations in the workplace
• Apply listening and questioning techniques
• Apply new tools and techniques for effective mentoring
• Learn new ways to share knowledge and experience
• Develop a structure for your mentoring role (starting from new or for keeping the relationship alive)
• Put it all into perspective (how it all fits together)
• Action plan for next steps ahead

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A 10% saving applies for Engineers Australia Members or for group bookings of 3 or more participants.