Overview

Mentorship empowers individuals. This course formalizes the ancient practice of mentoring. Focusing on the different, yet converging, roles of both the mentor and mentee, the course provides both a toolkit and a process to advance the mentor-mentee association for better outcomes. The course facilitates the personal growth of both individuals in that partnership.

This course enables delegates to distinguish between coaching and mentoring, as well as the roles and responsibilities of mentor and mentee. Taking delegates through the mentoring process, the course provides a toolkit that enables the successful implementation of a mentoring programme.

The course recognises participant’s context, and the pressure individuals are under in both the workplace and the changing world. Mentorships provide an effective way to adapt, learn and succeed in the world.

Why Should an Individual Attend?

The course

• outlines the roles and responsibilities of mentor and mentee,
• provides mentor and mentee with knowledge, skills and confidence to play their roles,
• provides practical opportunities for mentor and mentee to develop competencies,
• provides understanding of goal setting and reporting roles,
• improves the benefits derived from a mentor programme,
• shows how to evaluate the success of a programme, with a view to continued improvement.

Outcomes

Students completing this course will know how

• to understand the difference between a mentor and a coach.
• to understand the benefits of mentorships in the workplace.
• to understand the role of a mentor and a mentee.
• to be a mentor, or a mentee.
• to build a mentoring process that suits a context and needs.
• to implement procedural standards and mentoring requirements in the engineering sector.
• to understand and implement the communication and the evaluation processes.

Program Outline

• Context – where mentoring fits into an organisation.
• Mentoring, coaching and learning.
  • The roles of mentor and mentee:
  • what to expect and what to prepare in each role.
  • first meeting and what to cover.
  • expectation management and contracting to ensure success.
  • A practical toolkit.
• How to manage the process effectively
  • in the workplace context
• Keeping momentum.
  • within the length of the programme.
• Communication and evaluation of the programme.

Who Should Attend?

• Engineers, Technicians and Technologists who may be a mentor or mentee.
• Any manager who could be a mentor
• Specialists chosen to mentor mentees.
• Identified mentees needing to understand the process.