I talk a lot about the mentor’s toolbox. The toolbox provides your mentors with training and equips them with strategies, templates, and a whole lot of resources to support them in their mentoring practice. But Read more…
When you implement a mentoring programme in your organisation, this takes time, focus, energy, effort, and money. It’s a significant investment in the growth and success of your company as it reaps tremendous rewards for Read more…
Develop inspirational mentors who create phenomenal change for your people. There are many reasons why a mentoring programme is a must for your organisation. When I think of the feedback I have received over the Read more…
Continuing the journey of designing and implementing a mentoring programme for female alumni in Papua New Guinea (PNG), I facilitated a webinar yesterday to provide prospective mentors and mentees in PNG and Australia with information Read more…
A Mentoring 360 series following the progress of implementing a mentoring programme for women in Papua New Guinea I thought it would be interesting (and helpful) to share the journey I am on with establishing Read more…
Your mentoring programme is as good as the framework you develop right from the beginning. A robust programme framework helps participants (your mentors and mentees) know how to engage in mentoring, what to expect from Read more…
I’ve been meeting with a number of business leaders of small and medium-sized companies lately and they have all been talking about the impact their managers and supervisors have on team performance and cohesion. These Read more…
I’ve just finished reading an article about a research project that investigated whether mentors learn by mentoring others. My first question to self was, “What did the authors mean by the mentors’ ‘learning’?” And what Read more…
Mentoring 360 In-house Programme This programme is for organisations wanting to establish a mentoring programme for staff capability development. My ‘At A Glance’ diagram illustrates the 12 components of the mentoring programme from the design stage Read more…
Strategic alignment (how does mentoring contribute to the strategic direction and goals of your organisation?) Sponsorship from senior levels (advocates for your programme) Criteria for quality professional practice (what is the level of quality practice Read more…
I am currently working on the last chapter of my book on mentoring programme design (yes, I know I said it would be available earlier this year but it’s not far away now – watch Read more…
During a recent needs analysis meeting with a client, we spent some time determining the purpose of mentoring in their organisation. This is one of the first questions in the needs analysis process and a Read more…
Prompted by one of my FaceBook Community and LinkedIn colleagues – thanks Matthew Percival – I started doing some reading about tacit knowledge, in particular how common it is to lose this wealth of knowledge Read more…
I just looked up the word mentoring. The thesaurus couldn’t cope with this – I had to use ‘mentor’ to receive a list of synonyms. I Googled “Another word for mentoring” and still got ‘mentor’ Read more…
Including mentoring training for your mentors and mentees is, in my opinion and experience, an essential component of your mentoring programme. I have talked about the hows and whys of mentoring training in a previous Read more…
Topics of Interest Sessions: Another way to build mentoring capability and sustainability I completed a mentoring programme evaluation for an organisation last year which highlighted many good practices as well as some areas where a little Read more…
Refresher Training for Your Mentors and Mentees Let’s take a snapshot of a mentoring programme model and the systems and processes you can (I would say ‘should’) incorporate to ensure success, quality outcomes, return-on-investment (ROI), Read more…
Peer Mentoring and Communities of Practice I have added this article as a supplement to the CoP article above, as I have found that mentors and mentees who engage in CoPs really benefit from continuing Read more…
A Community of Practice (CoP) for Mentors and Mentees What is a CoP? A Community of Practice – CoP for short – is a group of people who share a common interest in a topic Read more…
Who Are Your Mentees? A lot of attention is paid to selecting the right mentors for your programme. I certainly focus extensively on this in my mentoring workshops, including the importance of deciding on organisational Read more…