What Questions Do I Ask? Effective questioning requires the ability to listen. Using questions to assist with listening and understanding is an essential skill for the mentor and the mentee. For example, the mentor uses Read more…
Am I Really Listening? Steven Covey in his book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (first published in 1988) says that a lot of people listen with the intent to reply and not to understand, Read more…
The STOP-START-CONTINUE-CHANGE Model Informed strategic decision-making offers a way of being proactively prepared to meet the challenges of change in your environment. The STOP-START-CONTINUE-CHANGE is a business management model that can be used as an Read more…
The Leader’s Checklist: Check your leader-mentor attributes and skills What are those core principles that drive your leadership approach and underpin who you are as a leader? How do these translate into your role as Read more…
8 Traits of the Leader-Mentor These 8 traits have been sourced from a range of authors, locally and internationally. The traits speak volumes of the attributes core to a good leader and mirror the qualities Read more…
The Leader as Mentor Here are a host of statements about leadership, mentoring and the leader as mentor. See which ones (if not all of them) you agree with and apply in your daily practice Read more…
Train the Mentor-Trainer Programme Do you want to build your mentor pool? Do you have people in your organisation who could effectively and successfully train others to take on a mentor role if they had Read more…
Periodic Mentoring Partnership Review Over the duration of your mentoring programme (6 months, 1 year), the mentor-mentee relationship may alter, and the support needs of the mentee could change. Therefore, it is valuable for the Read more…
What the Mentees are Saying Getting feedback from the mentee is as important as asking the mentor to reflect on the mentoring relationship. Afterall, if the focus of mentoring is to support the mentee, the Read more…
Does Your Behaviour Match Your Role and Responsibility? Some weeks ago, I went into a shop selling hair related lotions and potions. The only retail assistant was a young woman who was looking at her Read more…
The Benefits of Mentoring The benefits of mentoring are multiple, for the mentor, the mentee and the organisation as a whole. As part of your programme design process it is really helpful to consider the Read more…
Securing Sponsorship for your Mentoring & Coaching Programme Whether you are implementing a new programme or re-invigorating your existing programme, you need sponsorship from the senior management level. Without this support and advocacy of mentoring Read more…
Designing a mentoring & coaching programme? Where to start? I was talking about this topic with a customer just yesterday, as they were asking me about the content I covered in my mentoring training workshops. As Read more…
No Matter What Your Age You are a Work-in-progress …by Pam Finnie A couple of years ago, I was listening to an Australian morning chat show about the latest research on happiness. One of the Read more…
The Right Mentor for the Job Or: How to get your mentor selection spot on so that you get the right people for this role and ensure the success of your mentoring programme. Selecting the Read more…
Why Train Mentors and Mentees? There are two key points to make here.…… The first point – training is as valuable and essential for mentees as it is for mentors, if you want both parties Read more…
The Mentor Attributes Profile Carrying on from the article ‘The Right Mentor for the Job’, how do you decide on the core (critical, must-have, required) attributes of your mentors? In her article on values in Read more…
Measuring Mentoring Return-on-Investment (ROI) Well-constructed mentoring and coaching programmes that are sponsored by senior management pay for themselves by increasing the likelihood of people staying with the organisation. But how do you know if your Read more…
Creating Sustainable Mentoring and Coaching Programmes So you have mentoring and coaching activities occurring in your organisation, and people certainly realise the benefits of these. Common challenges many organisations face however is how to maintain Read more…
The Power of Good Feedback Feedback is a two-way exchange between the mentor and the mentee. Both mentoring partners are mutually responsible for giving and receiving feedback at times during the mentoring meetings. The first Read more…
A Mentor’s Self Reflection Self-reflection is a useful, strategic activity for the mentor to engage in, as it prompts deeper level thinking about their role as a support person, their skills and knowledge, and how Read more…