Mentoring is the process of preparing staff for future change. It is often referred to as a journey of prompted discovery. An effective mentor will be looking at longer term career development and helping to improve leadership development and the retention of key people.

This course enables delegates to develop the skills of a mentor so they can bring the best out of their staff. Each delegate is given a handbook of key points from the course and advice from experienced mentors. They will have everything needed to prepare for their meetings with the mentee.

These are the interesting points covered in the course handbook:

Download example pages from the Mentors Workbook

The latest form of mentoring is reverse mentoring or 'mentor up' as it is also known. With this a younger or less experienced person helps a more senior manager gain insight into areas, such as computers and changing IT technology, changing mindsets and expectations of the younger generation, new business concepts, etc. The traditional one-way street becomes a two-way thoroughfare where employees of all ages can learn from each other. For more information on reverse mentoring click here Reverse Mentoring

“The most powerful stimulus for changing minds is not a chemical or a baseball bat, it is a word.”    George A Miller

Who will benefit: Middle and Senior Managers

Duration: 1 day

By the end of the mentoring training course delegates will be able to...

• appreciate the benefits of mentoring
• understand the role and practice the skills of an effective mentor
• demonstrate the difference between a coach and a mentor
• build rapport and create a development environment
• define preferred learning styles - understand how people learn
• assess individual needs
• avoid barriers to learning
• give appropriate feedback
• handle resistance to constructive criticism
• use effective probing and questioning
• practice reflective listening
• get the trainee to review themselves objectively
• set effective action plans
• develop the performance of individuals

Elite Training European Limited is a leading UK provider of supervisory skills training courses. We are based in Suffolk - within easy travelling distance of Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, London, Hertfordshire, Kent, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Surrey and Sussex. We will be pleased to arrange a course anywhere in the UK or Europe.

Our courses consist of 'In-Company' training; we visit companies’ premises or hotels and run courses according to company and staff needs.

We do not run training courses for people from different companies to attend. However, we do run courses consisting of one or two delegates. This enables us to move at the pace of the delegates (as fast or slow as necessary; as deep into the subject as appropriate, and with as much development as possible).

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