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Mentoring provides organisations with a structured way to transfer knowledge and skills to less experienced employees (mentees) by more senior or experienced employees (mentors).
Background:
Sharne was responsible for the Mentoring processes within Ford Motor Company in North America and Europe.
Mentoring Processes:
One to One Mentoring:
A senior or more experienced employee is formally paired with a junior employee to facilitate the transfer of knowledge or technical skills.
Group Mentoring:
A group of junior or less experienced employees are assigned to a more senior or experienced employee for knowledge transfer and learning events. Additional benefits are the peer coaching and cross functional learning which occurs.
Reverse Mentoring:
This process reverses the traditional mentoring relationship. A junior employee becomes the mentor with the specific purpose of providing unfiltered feedback to a Director Level or above leader.
Student/Employer Mentoring:
Sharne has recently conducted the training which prepared fifty mentoring pairs participating in the Anglia Polytechnic University Undergraduate Mentoring programme.
The training provided both mentors and mentees with skills which enhance the mentoring partnership. Mentors received training in the areas of: coaching - including listening, giving and receiving feedback and goal setting. The mentees receiving training on setting goals, communication, listening, giving and receiving feedback as well as how to manage the relationship effectively with their mentor.
The final element of the training brought the mentors and mentees together to get to know one another and to set the guidelines and goals for their mentoring partnerships.
If you feel mentoring would be beneficial in your organisation - please contact us to discuss your specific requirements. We can offer support to create and maintain a programme from concept to delivery, design and deliver the training, monitor and coach the mentoring pairs to ensure success.
mentoring@unlimitedpossibilities.co.uk
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