Mentoring: Using a Mentor to Your Advantage

Mentoring: Using a Mentor to Your Advantage offers the student guidance for becoming an effective mentee building a strong mentoring relationship and maximizing the benefits of mentoring. The program covers the mentee's job possible learning styles how to set effective goals and how to become an effective learner. It also covers steps for choosing a mentor and the guidelines for developing self-empowerment.

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Duration: 4 hours Training Presented in: English

Audience

Employees and team members who want to learn how to develop a strong relationship with their mentor and gain the most from being mentored.

Objective

• Identify the qualities of effective mentees.
• Match the learning styles to their descriptions.
• Follow steps for becoming an assertive learner in a given situation.
• Choose a mentor.
• Identify the two guidelines for building strong mentoring relationships.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Becoming an Effective Mentee

• Identify the qualities of effective mentees.
• Match the learning styles to their descriptions.
• Help someone identify his or her learning style.
• Identify the five characteristics for setting effective goals.
• Follow steps for becoming an assertive learner in a given situation.
• Simulation Overview:
• In this simulation you are meeting with Janelle Hollander. Janelle has been identified as a top talent in her two years at Icon and her supervisor has recommended that she participate in the company's Mentoring for Excellence program. However Janelle had a negative experience with a mentoring program at her last place of employment and is reluctant to take part in your program. As the Director of Mentoring for Excellence you want to alleviate Janelle's concerns and emphasize the benefits of mentoring. Your goal in this discussion is to help Janelle identify her learning style and explain the steps she can take to become an assertive learner in her next mentoring relationship.

Unit 2: Building a Strong Mentoring Relationship

• Complete the sequence of steps for choosing a mentor.
• Choose a mentor.
• Identify the two guidelines for building strong mentoring relationships.
• Simulation Overview:
• In this simulation you are a Senior Network Administrator in Icon's Computing Hardware and Software Division; you are worried about job retention and career advancement in a dynamic business climate. You feel you can ensure greater job security if you better align network operations within the larger structure of information management. Although your division does not have a formal mentoring program in place you have independently narrowed down the list of potential mentors to Greg Avery and Tracy Carradine. You desire a mentor with both technical and managerial competencies and as you talk with Greg and Tracy you must determine which of them would be the best match for you based on their ability to help you achieve your goals.

Unit 3: Maximizing the Benefits of Mentoring

• Select the three guidelines for maximizing the benefits of mentoring.
• Identify guidelines for developing self-empowerment.
• Identify how to end a mentoring relationship depending on the situation.
• Simulation Overview:
• In this simulation you will meet with Bernard Chan a Product Developer at Icon's Computer Hardware and Software Division. In your job as a Product Merchandiser you have begun to crave a change and are starting to lose motivation and focus. You are somewhat interested in learning more about the company's Mentoring for Excellence program as you believe it might help you to develop professionally and redirect you in your career. Before enlisting however you want to talk to Bernard who has already been involved with the ME program. Your aim is to find out how you can get the most out of a mentoring relationship and empower yourself to follow through with your plan.

Duration

4

Minimum Requirements

The CDROM version of this course requires:

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
• At least a double speed CDROM drive.
• An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently only the CDROM version supports audio).

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).

Media

• Mentoring: Developing Your Mentoring Skills
• Mentoring: Implementing a Formal Mentoring Program