Thank you for sending your enquiry! One of our team members will contact you shortly.
Thank you for sending your booking! One of our team members will contact you shortly.
Course Outline
What is Mentoring & Why it Matters
- Roles and responsibilities of mentors
- The empowering mentor
- Mentoring in the contemporary context
- Characteristics of effective mentoring
- The significance of relationships in professional life
- Caring beyond professional boundaries
- Exceeding expectations as a mentor
Creating a Mentoring Relationship
- Stages of relationship development
- Initiating the process
- Matching mentors and mentees
- Clarifying mentee expectations
- Building a collaborative partnership
- Core guiding principles
- Drafting a Mentor/Mentee Agreement
- Two-Way Mentoring and Reverse Mentoring
Maintaining a Mentoring Relationship
- Fostering an adaptable mindset
- Navigating change management
- Developing coping strategies
- The technique of mirroring
- Importance of validation
- Navigating gray areas rather than black-and-white thinking
- Gradual adaptation processes
Navigating the Mentoring Relationship
- Essential tools for effective mentoring
- Adjusting to shifting contexts
- Practicing active listening
- Identifying and naming emotions
- Listening for underlying motivation
- Engaging in constructive confrontation
- Sharing information with positive impact
- Granting permission for growth
- Cultivating genuine curiosity
Fine Tuning & Transitioning the Mentoring Relationship
- Refining and transitioning techniques
- Potential pitfall one: Offering unsolicited criticism
- Potential pitfall two: Providing unsolicited advice
- Potential pitfall three: Attempting to rescue the mentee
- Managing the transition of the relationship
What Is Decision Making?
- Characteristics of effective and ineffective decision-makers
- Determining the necessary depth of analysis
- Components of the decision-making process
How to Choose Actions
- Evaluating options with distinct advantages and disadvantages
- Performing quantifiable comparisons between alternatives
- Systematically comparing related options
- Systematically comparing unrelated options
How to Analyse the Impact of Your Actions
- Using metrics to weigh pros and cons
- Conducting force field analysis
- Comparing benefits against costs of various options
- Systematically analyzing cascading decisions
- Visualizing your decision-making workflow
- Tools to enhance creativity and generate more options
How to Decide in Groups
- Implications of group decision-making
- Addressing frustrations associated with group dynamics
- Strategies to increase meeting efficiency
- Preventing dominant personalities from taking over
- Encouraging shy or new participants to share views safely
- Tools to streamline group decision-making processes
- Avoiding groupthink, where the desire for harmony leads to poor outcomes
What Are the Principles of Decision Making?
- Strategies for securing better bargains than others
- Philosophical implications of complexity in decision-making
- Best practices for planning actions and key principles
- Applying insights from game theory to decision-making
14 Hours
Testimonials (1)
Promoting the interaction between people.