Leadership
Adult Mentoring: Why and How?
Keep mentoring on track when the first plan stalls, with a way to review progress, other models to try and a clear finish.
- 24 minutes
- 5 modules
- 0.5 CPD hours
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Review progress with a mentoring circle and adjust the plan
- Choose between the OSCAR, STRIDE and GROW models to structure a session
- Write a theory of change for a mentoring programme
- Help a mentee see a problem they don't yet recognise
- Plan how often to meet, for how long and when to stop
About this course
Every mentor hits the session where the action plan hasn't happened and the conversation starts going round in circles. The framework you started with needs adapting, and sometimes you need a different one altogether.
You'll learn to use a mentoring circle to review what's worked, what got in the way and whether your mentee still wants the goal at all. There are three other models to borrow from (OSCAR, STRIDE and GROW), and a theory of change for setting out what a whole mentoring programme is meant to achieve.
Then there's the practical side that makes or breaks it. How often should you meet, and when is it time to switch mentors? Plan for twice the time you promise, and agree an exit strategy from the first session.
- For middle leaders, senior leaders and teachers. All phases.
5 modules
Open in order
- 3 min
Introduction
- 6 min
A mentoring circle
- 4 min
Alternative models of mentoring
- 7 min
Theory of change
- 7 min
Administering the mentoring