Course Details
Motivational mentoring
For many years, mentoring has been seen as a way of helping individuals to develop in order to reach their potential. For some, the mentor was seen as an experienced or senior person within an organisation who looked after a younger protégé. But things have changed – there is now a new approach to mentoring that every team leader, manager or headteacher should know about.
This course will help you to develop your abilities to become an effective and motivational mentor.
Through your new understanding of advanced mentoring processes, you will gain greater personal job satisfaction. You will also be able to help your colleagues become self-motivated and self-directed learners, assist their personal professional development and all round school improvement.
The course will be of value to anyone who has a responsibility for the professional development of colleagues, either within a leadership hierarchy or within a less formal 'peer mentoring' context. If you've been involved in the mentoring of a newly qualified teacher (NQT), you'll probably find the mentoring relationship explored in this course rather different from what you have experienced previously.
Motivational mentoring is not about assessment or judging the performance of another person. It's particularly suitable for people involved with improving the confidence and supporting the development of people in middle and senior management positions in schools, colleges and universities, ie, reasonably experienced professionals. People who have reached a stage in their career where their colleagues see them as credible and trustworthy will welcome the opportunities that this course presents.
The course contains four modules:
- What is motivational mentoring and how can it make a difference?
- The skills and characteristics of the motivational mentor
- Relationship building
- Keeping up the momentum and 'letting go'
Author Biography
Meet the course author:
Jim Laing is a former teacher, headteacher and chief education adviser for a large local education authority. He now runs Ridgeway Associates, which is a development consultancy focusing on management and leadership issues across the public, private and voluntary sectors. He's an experienced facilitator for the National Leadership Programme for Serving Headteachers (LPSH) and also the 'Leading from the Middle' NCSL course from the National College for School Leadership (NCSL).
Jim has worked in the UK and internationally as an educational consultant and trainer in numerous primary, secondary and special schools. His specialisms include work in conflict resolution and mediation, as well as mentoring.
Jim helped to set up the Headteacher Mentoring Scheme in Wiltshire in the 1990s and still provides training for all new and experienced mentors in the Wiltshire and Swindon area. He also devised the new scheme of 'Leadership Mentoring' for senior managers at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He's currently providing personal mentoring support for a primary school teacher, a secondary school headteacher, an international school principal, a pro-vice chancellor of a major university, a head of a sports college and a marketing account executive in the private sector.