11 Responses

1. Personality Traits

   Try and find a Personality Traits Questionnaire as this will be good for potential Mentors to appreciate how we are all driven/motivated  differently.

   Sorry the one I have is Copyright. MindTools or similar probably have one

   http://www.gurusoftware.com/gurunet/personal/factors.htm

    

2. you may have already done this but……

   …I ran a similar sounding course some time ago and….

   1. Mentors were unsure of the boundaries of their role……..so an activity to get their input to what the role was and what the role wasn’t.  This included the issue of confidentiality and (as the mentors and mentees all worked for the same organisation) the topic of the different levels of power of different mentors. (‘Power’ as in, "My mentor is the MD, so I’m going to get better assignments than you whose mentor is ‘only’ the Operations Manager in the widget division")

   2. We then did a brainstorm of the characteristics and personality traits likely to be found in a successful mentor, they then actually produced a series of "cartoons" of the "perfect mentor"……these were later used as reminders for people.

   3. We also did No. 2 above for the perfect mentee…….so that the mentors had an idea of what t look for in terms of committment and also unreasonable expectations in mentees.  These were also used to help explain mentoring to the mentees.

    

   I hope this helps

   Rus

   http://www.coach-and-courses.com

3. introduction to mentoring

   Excellent, thank you  for this.

4. An Introduction to Mentoring

   Thank you so much for this, this is really useful.

5. mentoring

   I find it’s hard to beat a discussion of learning style precipitated by completion of the Honey and Mumford questionnaire. easily available on-line,however, if you have problems let me know and I’ll send a PDF.

6. Introduction to mentoring

   Thanks for this….I think at this stage this may be a little to ‘in-depth’ for the participants, however, I’m hoping to develop a follow up and I think this would be perfect for that (or even an exercise to take away ready for the next session).  : )

7. Introduction to Mentoring

   Thanks Penelope. 

8. Webinar

   This may be of interest…

   Go to http://WWW.MentoringTalent.com

   Complimentary Webinar Invite

   "How Can Mentoring Facilitate Learning and Development Across the Organization? "

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   This 30 minute complimentary webinar hosted by Insala’s Mentoring expert Judy Corner will include:-

   – The Benefits of Mentoring as a Learning and Development Strategy
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9. Introduction to Mentoring

   Have booked myself onto the webinar, so many thanks!

10. Lots of free downloads

    I have posted a lot of downloads you or anyone else can have for free.

    These include a 50 point diagnostic I use a lot, and various exercises that have worked for me and I hope do for you.

    Go to my website: http://www.andrewgibbons.co.uk and then the free downloads section.

    All the best,

    Andrew

     

11. Introduction to Mentoring

    Thank you for this, there’s some really excellent acivity driven stuff (technical word) in here !