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Creating a mentoring culture in College

Establishing and embedding a mentoring programme

Reasons for attending
Do you want to create an ethos of continuous improvement and build a more supportive college culture?  Would you like to see staff more engaged, motivated and achieving their potential? Are you a senior staff member keen to continue your own personal development by extending your skills within your current role?  Would you like to build better peer support networks? Could you benefit by breaking down departmental boundaries and sharing knowledge and skills to build the capacity of the College?

Organisations that have implemented a mentoring programme have noticed significant increases in engagement, motivation and productivity. They are better prepared to respond quickly to changing circumstances and meet the challenges of tomorrow during a time of economic austerity.  Mentoring schemes give staff the support, guidance and nurturing they need to excel, helping them identify the hurdles they face and find ways to overcome them, building the capacity of the organisation and giving it a competitive edge.

What this programme is about
This highly practical programme will identify what you need to do to establish a mentoring culture in college and provide a framework for implementing the scheme.   Establishing an effective ethos, contracting, and agreeing appropriate boundaries will all be considered to ensure the scheme has a real impact whilst not detracting from the ‘day job’.  Selecting the right people as both mentors and mentees, ensuring mentors have the right skills and confidence to support staff in this way and establishing on-going support networks for the mentors are key to success. This course will provide the toolkit needed for senior staff to establish a scheme that’s successful and sustainable.

During this programme you will learn

  • what exactly mentoring is and how it benefits the organisation and staff
  • ways to clarify your mentoring ethos
  • how to develop a mentoring model that’s right for your organisation
  • a model for setting up or improving an existing scheme,
  • strategies for marketing and championing the scheme
  • principles of contracting – boundaries and expectations
  • how to select successful mentors – skills, knowledge and attributes
  • an approach to supporting the scheme  – peer support for mentors
  • how to identify pitfalls and barriers and how to overcome them
  • an approach to reviewing and evaluating

Impact

  • Organisational capacity, learning and value increases
  • Knowledge and skills are shared and disseminated
  • Improved inter-departmental working
  • On-going, cost-effective, personal development for senior staff
  • Greater organisational commitment and loyalty
  • Quicker and more effective responses to change

Duration: 6 hours
Fees on application

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  • The magic was in the group brought together by Kate Julie and Owen. You miss a great opportunity if you don’t enter this course. The most magic was the potatoes! Changing belief systems in a split second. Keep up the outstanding work Thank you
    Jos Frederiks NLP Trainer

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    Dr Sharon Ney

  • It doesn’t matter how experience you are, go for it. The training was the most magic. Teaching must go over to learning and we in school have to take responsibility for that. I will use this in my work as a consultant helping schools to improve. Many many thanks for a great course.
    Anita Svennson,Swedish Educational consultant

  • This course helped me widen my ideas about teaching and learning. It prompted lots of questions about how we should approach learning. Experiential learning is profound and fun. Thank you
    David Hicks,Music Teacher

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  • I may wobble but I move forward with a giggle into all that is possible. The course has accelerated my own slow and steady learning into the amazing and continued possibility of learning
    Vicky Morgan,College lecturer

  • This was loads of fun and I loved it. Fun and interactive ways of learning and how to apply that to teaching. Some may think that its only for teachers but we are all teachers in different areas. This course totally surpassed my expectations and all my goals were achieved. Creative teaching makes you want to teach. I highly recommend it so that more good teachers equal more confident kids. Just do it!
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