Category: Mentoring
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The mentoring model
Mentoring is a strategy to help us learn, ensuring self-directed learning is acknowledged and put to good use. Mentoring encourages reflection that’s required to learn from experience. The mentoring model: This shows how I as a mentor lead a reflective conversation that results in constructive action. In the first instance…
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Mentoring can be tailored to suit various outcomes
There is no “one-size fits all” Mentoring can be tailored to suit the various outcomes you require, guiding and stimulating reflection, and actions for improved personal and professional outcomes. I offer; Informal mentoring – where I facilitate discussion that establishes the purpose and parameters of the relationship. As a mentor I…
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Mentoring Defined
There are many definitions about mentoring. I define it as, a mentor is someone who shares their knowledge, skills, and experience with another person to help them to progress. If you want to learn and grow mentoring is for you! One of my favourite quotes is; “Tell me and I…
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Why be a mentor?
We have so much information at our fingertips, we’re drowning in data, and buried by information overload. We can gather information from search engines, and know-how from YouTube! And we’re force-fed opinions, skewed by facts, and left wondering: Where do we gain insight? How do we make sense of it…