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Mentoring
Mentoring is a developmental relationship which involves a more experienced party imparting their knowledge and career reflections on the mentee through support, advice and guidance.听Mentoring is about listening to understand and to support mentees to establish and reach their goals. Coaching is less directive and performance/target oriented. They are both听excellent methods of learning through others that we encourage staff to engage with at least once throughout听their career.听
Here you will find听the necessary resources听to set up a mentoring programme at a departmental level.听We are not able to offer a service where potential mentees can be matched to a mentor. If you are interested in finding a mentor, you should make initial enquiries within your department to see if there is an existing mentoring programme, or if there is interest in establishing one.
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Establishing departmental听programmes
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Before setting up a mentoring programme, it is important that听departments听have a clear set of objectives supporting their purpose, and the need to resource these accordingly.
There are six key steps to establish an effective mentoring programme
- Identify your working group membership and establish who holds responsibility.听Clarify the objectives of the group, and agree on the preferred duration of mentor/mentee relationships.听We would听advise that six or twelve month relationships should be sufficient, depending on needs.
- Address diagnostic questions on how to set听up a mentoring programme. See
- Secure appropriate operational resource听to support the mentor/mentee recruitment process and logistics. Structure is key to successful mentoring relationships.
- Ensure that mentors and mentees听undertake training before they commence. Our mentoring toolkit offers recommendations on relevant e-learning material, for example:听
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Mentors can also assess themselves in the role by accessing a diagnostic in the听.听 - Engage mentors/mentees in the use of the mentoring contract to outline goals and developmental objectives.听A听contract template can be found in the 听
- Evaluate听the relationship and measuring outcomes. If you do not have a template, please email coachatucl@ucl.ac.uk听to ask for an experiential learning evaluation form.
