Essential Mentoring Techniques Curriculum Outline
Essential Mentoring Techniques: Mentoring Fundamentals
Overview/DescriptionMentoring can benefit everyone. Mentor relationships, whether formal or informal, are a key to enabling success in both our personal and professional lives. Facilitated mentoring programs offered by organizations can lead to employees acquiring knowledge and expertise more efficiently. These programs also offer other benefits, such as increasing employee retention and work productivity. The mentor relationship helps mentees work out what they want to achieve and how to get there, while benefiting the mentor in the capacity as a role model. Mentors are much more than coaches. They help the whole individual develop by providing advice and resources, supporting career goals, and celebrating achievements. This course reviews the objectives of mentoring programs and the benefits offered to employees, mentors, and the organization as a whole. It explores the expectations and roles of mentors, coaches, and managers to understand the distinct advantages of mentor relationships. Finally, it looks at what makes a mentoring program successful, considering the various mentoring models and approaches and how each contributes to making a mentoring program a good experience for all involved.
Target AudienceAnyone who wants to gain a foundation in mentoring, and managers and team leaders who want to develop or refine their mentoring skills
Expected Duration (hours)1.0
Lesson Objectives Essential Mentoring Techniques: Mentoring Fundamentals
Identify the benefits of mentoring for the mentee, the mentor, and for the organization Identify the objectives of workplace mentoring Distinguish between examples of coaching and mentoring relationships Identify what makes mentoring programs successful Match mentoring models to examples Distinguish between the arguments for implementing formal or informal mentoring Course Number:
mgmt_29_a01_bs_enus Back to ListEssential Mentoring Techniques: Designing and Initiating Mentoring Programs
Overview/DescriptionMentoring programs are as varied as the organizations that implement them. Options include one-to-one, group, executive, and e-mentoring approaches. These all share common execution strategies that can establish your mentoring program as a viable function within your company. Understanding the goals required from your mentoring program and ensuring that support is available for both mentors and mentees will aid your decision on how to approach mentoring for your company. This course explores how to set up a successful mentoring program by looking at the elements that are needed to design and implement an effective program. It covers how to prepare and plan your program so that participants are oriented and connected effectively. And it explores the criteria for matching mentees and mentors to create fruitful relationships. You will also learn the importance of personal development plans and how to set the learning process in motion so that mentees can achieve their objectives.
Target AudienceAnyone who wants to gain a foundation in mentoring, and managers and team leaders who want to develop or refine their mentoring skills
Expected Duration (hours)1.0
Lesson Objectives Essential Mentoring Techniques: Designing and Initiating Mentoring Programs
Determine if a mentoring program has all the requisite elements to make it successful Match the steps in designing a mentoring program in a given scenario to the actions taken at each stage Match mentors to mentees in a given scenario Determine if the guidelines for establishing a mentoring relationship have been correctly applied in a given situation Course Number:
mgmt_29_a02_bs_enus Back to ListEssential Mentoring Techniques: Building and Maintaining Mentoring Relationships
Overview/DescriptionLike all relationships, mentoring comes with its share of obstacles. Effectively building and maintaining a mentoring relationship is important for creating a satisfying and productive pairing. Although the mentee drives the growth phase of the mentoring relationship, the mentors ability to effectively understand, gauge, probe, and respond to the issues the mentee brings to the table is a crucial aspect of maintaining a solid mentor-mentee bond. In this course, youll learn how to manage the mentor-mentee relationship and how to respond appropriately to issues that arise. The course examines how to give constructive feedback that enables mentees to solve their own problems. It also provides guidelines on how to deal with program issues such as too much formality and too little support. It explains how to address interpersonal issues in order to sustain a valuable mentoring relationship. Finally, it looks at the unique issues that might arise when mentors and mentees are involved in a virtual mentoring relationship.
Target AudienceAnyone who wants to gain a foundation in mentoring, and managers and team leads who want to develop or refine their mentoring skills
Expected Duration (hours)1.0
Lesson Objectives Essential Mentoring Techniques: Building and Maintaining Mentoring Relationships
Recognize how to manage mentoring relationships effectively Determine whether a mentor is giving feedback appropriately in a given scenario Address mentoring program issues in a given scenario Recognize ways to address interpersonal issues in mentoring relationships Course Number:
mgmt_29_a03_bs_enus Back to ListEssential Mentoring Techniques: Evaluating and Ending the Mentoring Program
Overview/DescriptionIs your mentoring program valuable? Does it contribute to the achievement of business goals? A mentoring programs survival depends on how successfully it contributes to mentee growth. Companies must make the best use of resources to remain competitive. When resources are stretched thin, organizations need to know how much their mentoring programs are contributing to the bottom line. Evaluating the progress of mentoring relationships and measuring the success of the mentoring program are vital to sustaining it. And knowing when to successfully and tactfully end mentoring relationships will make the best use of resources. This course considers how mentors can use self-assessment to identify and address skill gaps to maintain successful mentoring relationships. It also examines the qualitative and quantitative methods used to evaluate mentoring programs and how to assess the overall effectiveness of the program. Finally, the course provides guidelines on how to effectively end mentoring relationships when there are difficult circumstances or when the relationship has successfully completed its objectives.
Target AudienceAnyone who wants to gain a foundation in mentoring, and managers and team leads who want to develop or refine their mentoring skills
Expected Duration (hours)1.0
Lesson Objectives Essential Mentoring Techniques: Evaluating and Ending the Mentoring Program
Recognize the steps for enhancing a mentoring relationship using results of a self-assessment Match mentoring skills with self-assessment questions used for developing and monitoring those skills Assess whether the correct steps are applied during a mentoring evaluation Bring a mentoring relationship to a professional close in a given scenario Course Number:
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Essential Mentoring Techniques
Mentoring isn’t the same as managing and yet many management professionals need to be able to mix
leadership and coaching without causing any confusion. Whether you are being asked to mentor a new employee or help a
leading member of your workforce accelerate their career, knowing how to successfully administer business coaching can
be a helpful tool for you and your staff members. To master this ability, you will need to make some improvements to your
team organization, performance, and communication skills. You will also need to get a grasp of business trends and the
rapidly changing methods of handling things electronically. With our online training, professionals will learn how to deal
with all of these issues and more.
It is important to stay on top of every aspect when it comes to being in the world of business leadership and coaching
your work mates can prove to be a very useful tool. Professionals will learn how to cultivate their managing abilities in
order to properly facilitate and guide themselves, their employees and their teams in any way necessary. CBT Direct’s Online
Business Coaching and Mentoring Training will cover all the different aspects of being a mentor within a professional environment
and give you the edge you need to lead your protégé and yourself to success.
Benefits of CBT Direct’s Online Business Coaching and Mentoring Training
CBT Direct boasts the most beneficial online training on the market. With CBT Direct’s online training, you have the flexibility
to study on your schedule, and with the speed and reliability of the internet, CBT Direct’s mentoring training course is accessible
anywhere you have an internet connection. Convenience finally costs less with CBT Direct - the most affordable online training solution
today.
The unique design of CBT Direct’s mentoring course emphasizes learner initiative, self-management and experiential learning.
CBT Direct’s online course design begins with the definition of user-focused performance objectives and then proceeds to the selection
and implementation of instructional strategies and learning activities appropriate for those objectives. This effective instruction
model for CBT Direct’s mentoring training course ensures the greatest level of comprehension and retention.
Who Benefits from CBT Direct’s Online Business Coaching and Mentoring Training?
Our online leadership and coaching course is designed to help any professionals in a management and/or
leading position.
What Professionals Will Learn from CBT Direct’s Online Business Coaching and Mentoring Training
Our online leadership and coaching course will explain the different types of mentoring relationships along with their
advantages and characteristics. CBT Direct will explain the need for active and supportive listening as well as other
effective communication skills. Professionals will evaluate the right and wrong methods used to give feedback and also
how to receive it when you are the one being mentored. Our online training will go over how to choose a protégé and guide
into making the right decisions. Furthermore, our course stresses the need to stick with them from the beginning of the
process to the end.
CBT Direct will give effective strategies for overcoming mentoring challenges, ending mentored partnerships, handling time
commitments and creating an environment built on trust. Leaders will study the ways that mentoring can enhance and benefit managers,
employees and the company as a whole. Our online training will also clarify the difference between participatory and typical
manager-employee communications using scenarios in a business setting.
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Professionals will discover when and how they should go about organizing and/or mentoring a team. Our leadership and coaching
course will look at improving team performance and dynamics along with issues that may arise. CBT Direct will observe how to create,
conduct and report program evaluations. Leaders will consider mentoring issues that can arise from different aspects such as age,
gender and cross-cultural communications. Our online training will also account for the tools, benefits and challenges with
instilling an e-mentoring program.
Everyone needs a guiding hand once in a while, and if you have the right tools and abilities you can help those within your
company to succeed in their goals and ambitions. Managers can utilize our course to establish and maximize on their personal traits
so that they can effectively mentor and be mentored in the most beneficial manner possible. With CBT Direct’s Business Coaching and
Mentoring Training, you will be able to guide your protégé, employees, teams and yourself into successful actions and results.
Essential Mentoring Techniques
