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Becoming an Effective Mentor to a Colleague: A Half-day Workshop for Mentors

Seminar # 67704

Overview

Much of the skills and insights that an organization needs already reside within the minds of some employees. These are the mentors whose role is to transfer their knowledge to those who need to know. Many organizations are discovering that they can dramatically improve performance and results when they formalize mentoring relationships in a company-sponsored program.

Product Description

The second component of AMA’s Mentoring Solution gives mentors the training they need to have effective mentoring relationships. It helps them identify their roles and responsibilities as mentor so they can successfully relate to their mentoring clients, as well as the tools and techniques to help their clients grow and thrive.

Who Should Attend

Individuals identified by their organization to be mentors in a formal mentoring program. Mentors should not have direct reporting responsibility for their mentoring clients. This half-day training workshop is limited to 20 mentors.

Benefits

By the end of the workshop, participants will gain the tools to:

• Improve morale, job satisfaction and retention
• Enhance managerial and leadership skills
• Increase influence and power, reputation and recognition
• Develop insight into different roles or areas of the organization or profession
• Gain visibility and exposure

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

• Engage in supportive, guidance-providing mentoring relationships
• Conduct mentoring conversations, using question- and story-based guidance techniques
• Handle, with aplomb, challenges in the mentoring relationship

Instructional Methods

Overview is delivered in a lecture format, but attendees immediately plunge into a series of group activities including small group discussions, case study, debriefs, and role plays.

Outline

Mentoring Overview

• Define mentoring, including what it is not, and how it differs from coaching
• Provide an overview of a formal mentoring program including its intent, and the benefits it likely will provide to the organization, mentors and mentoring clients
• Review the roles of both mentor and mentoring clients in a mentoring relationship
• Identify mentoring qualities, answering the question: what makes a good mentor good?
• Describe the four stages of a formal mentoring relationship

Preparing to Mentor

• Identify your responsibilities as a mentor, so that you can most effectively relate to your mentoring client
• Execute effective mentoring behaviors, deploying methods to facilitate, through relationship and dialogue, a mentoring client’s learning
• Deploy The Mentor’s Toolkit—forms and planners to help you help another person grow and develop

Contact an AMA training specialist to learn how to bring these workshops on-site to your organization. Call today at 1-877-566-9441.