Mentoring Skills for Managers

Enhance your management skills with a mentoring approach

Course description

The workshops will develop your understanding of mentoring and the skills of a mentor to enable you to adopt a mentoring style of leadership. These workshops are highly interactive with practice sessions to develop and embed skills and build confidence, breakout rooms will be used online so that you can put the tools and techniques into practice with others on the programme.

The topics covered include:

• The role of a manager as a mentor
• Develop key mentoring skills – listening, questioning, silence and building rapport to engage colleagues
• Key structure and skills required to undertake mentoring
• Mentoring as a manager
• Use mentoring language to enhance communication and develop productive relationships with colleagues
• Set compelling outcomes for yourself and others to maximise personal and professional development
• Work within the mentoring contract and ethical boundaries