Kickstart Your Mentoring

duration:

1 x 2-hr VIRTUAL MENTEE only BRIEFING

1 x 2-hr VIRTUAL MENTOR ONLY BRIEFING, and

1 x 1-hour virtual joint mentee-mentor kickstart meeting

Traditionally, mentoring was a hierarchical relationship involving a wise, senior who dispensed wisdom, knowledge and advice to a grateful but essentially powerless junior. In contemporary mentoring relationships, the mentee may still be matched with a more senior or ‘experienced’ person, but the focus now is more on how both parties can learn and grow.

Modern mentoring relationships are based on a more mutual, equal and collaborative learning alliance.

This workshop provides the ideal forum for establishing a collaborative, respectful, and empowering mentoring relationship, as part of a formalised mentoring program where mentees have been pre-matched with a mentor for a given duration. The mentees and mentors join separate virtual workshops prior to meeting up with their pre-matched mentoring partner, to commence a joint Mentee-Mentor Kickstart Meeting.

By the end of this workshop, both mentors and mentees will emerge having:

shared the mentee’s goals, needs, and expectations for the mentoring relationship;
a clear understanding of the agreed mentoring relationship with regard to their respective roles and responsibilities and some agreed shared ground rules for the relationship;
discussed some mentoring tools and frameworks to support a mutually beneficial mentoring relationship; and
met their mentoring partner and commenced an initial mentoring plan including agreed future mentoring meeting dates, times, and possible mentoring activities, resulting in the creation of a Mentee’s Learning Plan.

YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT …

The benefits, opportunities and challenges of mentoring relationships.
Maximising the benefits of mentoring and overcoming the typical challenges faced by both mentors and mentees.
Key interpersonal skills for empowering and motivating mentoring relationships.
Preparing to meet your mentor/mentee.
Tips for an effective mentoring relationship.
Useful tools and frameworks for mentors
Useful tools and frameworks for mentees.
Tips and tools for monitoring your mentoring relationship
Kickstarting your mentoring - for a successful first meeting.

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who sHOULD participate?

Nominated workplace mentors and mentees, and graduates/individuals participating in formal organisational mentoring programs.
Individuals wanting to achieve positive mentoring experiences as either a mentor or mentee.
Those responsible for establishing successful workplace mentoring programs.

WHY THIS WORKSHOP?

To explore the benefits, challenges, and opportunities of mentoring relationships.
To identify goals, roles, responsibilities, and boundaries of an effective mentoring relationship.
To explore some useful mentoring tools and frameworks to support a mutually beneficial mentoring relationship.
To meet and kickstart a mentee’s learning plan.