Mentoring Skills
Instructor: Cognosco Learning · Duration: Full Day · In-Person
One-day, in-person course — $595 per person · 3–4 seats save 10% · 5+ seats save 20%
About This Course
Most mentoring fails politely. Two people meet, the senior one talks about his own career for an hour, the junior one nods, and both leave calling it mentoring. Nothing was contracted, nothing was asked, nothing changed. This course teaches the craft underneath the title: what mentoring is and what it is not, how to agree the work before you begin it, how to listen and question instead of telling, how to share experience so it frees the mentee instead of cloning the mentor, how to give feedback and challenge inside the relationship, how to hold boundaries and confidentiality with their edges stated honestly, how to recognise the moment a struggle belongs somewhere else and refer it on, and how to end the relationship on purpose instead of letting it fade. You will sit in the mentor's chair throughout: every exercise puts a mentee in front of you and grades what you do, not what you admire.
What You'll Learn
- Tell mentoring apart from managing, coaching, and therapy — and hold its boundaries
- Contract a mentoring relationship, build trust, and listen before you tell
- Share experience, give feedback, and challenge without cloning or carrying the mentee
- Refer on when the work exceeds mentoring, and end the relationship well
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