Effective mentoring

Understand the skills and techniques of a successful mentor

Gill Hasson

Objectives

  • To understand the role and skills of a mentor.
  • To support and encourage an employee during a period of change and development.
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Overview

Developing employees’ expertise, skills and confidence is a continual challenge. Organisations need their employees to learn, and be able to apply that learning well, in a short period of time. By matching the novice – an employee who is new to a role – with an ‘expert’ – an experienced member of staff with the experience, skills and knowledge – organisations are recognising mentoring schemes as valued ways ...

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