Mentoring Practical Business Game

Learn and practise mentoring skills with our popular training game for mentor activities.

With Practical Mentoring’s quick delivery, you can soon be up and running with mentoring skills training.

Interesting and informative mentoring notes and practical training activities provide the basic principles and techniques required for successful mentoring.

In the pack you will find useful information you can use on:

• the role of a mentor
• do’s and don’ts of life mentoring
• the importance of non-verbal communication when mentoring
• body language that builds rapport
• powerful questions for life mentoring
• using the GROW model (Goal, Reality, Options, Will)
• the skills of giving feedback.

When mentoring, it is likely the mentee will come to you with issues or problems seeking your advice. It is important to learn how to hand the problem or difficulty back to the mentee and encourage them find the solutions. Part two will help you practice the skills to do this.

Choose from the series of interesting and challenging problems included in the pack for the mentor to assist the mentee to resolve.

Divide the group into teams of three. With one person to take on the role as a mentor; another to be the mentee and one to be the observer.

Give each person a briefing sheet for their role which they must read and fully understand before starting the mentoring session.

Give the mentor a problem sheet with the answer and another sheet with only the problem on. When the mentor fully understands the problem and the answer they hand the problem sheet to the mentee and run a mentoring session to encourage them to find the solution.

The observer’s role is to observe the actions and reactions of the participants and make notes of what they consider to be noticeable actions and attitudes. At the end of the session the observer will give their observations for discussion with the participants.

This game is appropriate for mentors, both in formal mentoring programmes and in informal mentoring.

• Understand the basics of mentoring
• Appreciate good and bad approaches to mentoring
• Using body language to build rapport
• Ask effective questions
• Practice effective listening
• Avoid being judgmental
• Show empathy, acknowledge and challenge
• Encourage accountability
• Get to the bottom line
• Communication skills to support mentees problem solving
• Giving feedback
• Practice mentoring skills
• How to hand the problem or difficulty back to the mentee and encourage them find the solution
• Help others to discover more about themselves.

• Mentoring Practical Business Game PDF
• Business Games Brochure
• Course Brochure
• Team Building Brochure

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• Mentoring Practical and Coaching Practical are similar business games.  Contact us if you’re considering purchasing both.
• There’s no restriction on the number of times you can use our games.
• It is possible to play Mentoring Practical in other languages if the trainer verbally translates the English instructions.
• Also available to play remotely.