Mentoring Training Course

About Your Bespoke Mentoring Course

Our mentoring course will enable you to:

• know the best practice for mentoring

• gain practical guidance on setting up or developing an existing mentoring scheme

• look at long-term career development

• help to improve leadership development and retain key people

• know the pitfalls to avoid

• become a mentor for the first time or develop existing skills

• learn how mentoring differs from coaching and other forms of people development

• learn how to hand the problem or difficulty back to the mentee and encourage them find the solutions.

A mentoring training course will help your business to thrive. Our experienced mentors will give guidance and develop key skills through group discussions, practical exercises, role-play sessions, case studies and action planning.

Our experienced mentors will give guidance and develop key skills through group discussions, practical exercises, role-play sessions, case studies and action planning.

Each participant will receive a workbook of key issues, giving them the framework to build a successful mentoring programme in the workplace.

Typical Key Learning Points From Mentoring Courses

• Potential Benefits of Mentoring

• Mentor Qualifications

• The Role of a Mentor

• Mentoring Skills

• Avoiding the Pitfalls

• Mentor versus Manager

• Mentor versus Coach

• The Role of the Mentee

• Mentee Qualifications

• Mentoring Outcomes

• Phases of Mentoring Relationships

• Meeting Suggestions

• The First Meeting

• Between First and Second Meetings

• The Second Meeting

• The Experiential Learning Cycle

• Model Discussions

• Frequent Questions asked by Mentors

• Duration of Mentoring

• End of the relationship

• More than one mentee at a time

• Using The GROW Model

• Outcome Orientation

• Creating SMART Action Plans

• The skills of giving Feedback

• Avoiding Problems

Benefits From Your Bespoke Mentoring Training Course

Based on your unique requirements, as an example, by the end of the mentoring training course participants 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

Utilise Your Apprenticeship Levy

Mentoring is part of the Operations / Departmental Manager Level 5 apprenticeship standard, Team Leader / Supervisor Level 3 apprenticeship standard and Business Administrator Level 3 apprenticeship standard, hence when delivered as part of these apprenticeships, you can utilise your apprenticeship levy to cover your Learning and Development (L&D) investment. See our apprenticeship overview for more information on this cost effective way to invest in your organisation's mentor and mentee skills.