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Manager as talent spotter By and large, managers are not very good at spotting talent (unless it is someone like them!). However, if they are prepared to put aside stereotypes about what constitutes talent, they can play a vital role in retention, diversification and harnessing of talent. Effective talent spotters are on the look out...
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When a direct report has a mentor, they will need support and encouragement from their line manager. Practical ways, in which you can help, include: Being generous with the time you allow them to take for meetings with their mentor. You would normally encourage them to attend relevant training programmes. Mentoring provides immediate, just-in-time development...
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Read More Mentoring direct reports, the difficulties and how to overcome them
Matching How you will match your programme participants is a key element in the overall programme design and needs to be clearly defined and agreed upfront. It is often the one thing that people will ask most questions about and have the greatest expectations from in your programme and the more transparent you can be (more…)
Summary Selecting participants for your programme can be a challenge. Generally you will be guided by what your programme purpose is. If this is a graduate programme you will have your mentee group identified immediately. This will also aid your thinking in who you might want to approach as mentors as some criteria you might...
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Once mentors have some initial experience, they typically want to consolidate and grow their skills. Some of the practical ways programmes meet this need include: There appears to be a direct correlation between this process of continuous development as a mentor and willingness to be a serial mentor. For those, who want to go further...
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Coaching aims at the personal and professional development of an employee. It works best when it happens in a climate of openness and mutual respect. Our expectations of each other are that: Responsibility for success of coaching is shared between coach and coachee We will agree clear and specific initial goals for coaching, while recognising...
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Coordinators are the largely unsung heroes of mentoring programmes. They promote the programme to participants and corporate sponsors; to protect it from the destructive forces of sudden economies and changes of management fashion; and to maintain the quality of the programme, often on limited budgets. Great mentoring coordinators always have remarkable reserves of enthusiasm, both (more…)
How to be a mentor to mentors One of the key supports for mentoring programmes is having a cadre of highly experienced mentors, who new mentors can lean on and learn from. In some programmes, these mentors take on much of the burden of new mentor development, shifting the balance from classroom learning towards ad...
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Please score each of the statements below from 0 (not like me at all) to 5 (very like me) © David Clutterbuck
Mentoring roundtables are learning and support sessions that promote active and timely sharing of good mentoring practice amongst a peer mentoring group (mentees or mentors). Participation in roundtables encourages benchmarking of progress relative to others in the group. Mentors and mentees report that participation in mentoring roundtables creates great value for them. They find that...
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