WT: Becoming a Mentor

Mentoring benefits your organisation by recognising and enhancing the skills of your employees.
The "Becoming a Mentor" training programme helps you understand the value and key challenges of mentoring in the workplace. It also equips you with proven methods and tools to confidently take on the role of mentor within your organisation.

Before

Defining your training objectives

During - Group Session

1 - The Key Principles of the Mentoring Relationship

• Understand the purpose and benefits of mentoring within an organisation.
• Define what mentoring is and identify the key success factors.
• Distinguish between mentoring, coaching, training, and management.
• Describe the mentor's principles and values.
• Identify all stakeholders involved in the mentoring relationship and understand their roles.
• Set clear expectations and establish the conditions for a strong and effective relationship between mentor and mentee.

2 - Structuring the Mentoring Process

• Define mentoring objectives and success indicators.
• Plan the mentoring journey: key stages.
• Use tools and techniques to initiate the mentoring relationship: mentoring agreement, initial alignment meeting, preparation checklists.
• Facilitate a mentoring session.
• Conduct a real-time (hot) evaluation of the session.
• Use tools effectively to manage mentoring meetings: session checklists and reports.

3 - The Mentor's Mindset and Tools

• Adopt the right mentoring mindset
  
  • Share knowledge and support the mentee in finding their own solutions.
  • Build trust and develop a strong mentoring alliance.
  • Practise active listening.
• Conduct a mentoring session
  
  • Clarify and refine the mentee’s request.
  • Empower the mentee to achieve their goals.
  • Close a session effectively using structured feedback.
• Bring the mentoring relationship to a close
  
  • Conduct the final wrap-up conversation.
  • Identify possible next steps after the mentoring concludes

After

Digital learning activities to facilitate the implementation of your learning in the workplace:

• An email-based implementation support programme

Assessment

An online questionnaire to assess your acquired skills.