Mentoring Program - Mentee Workshop

We are very excited to bring back by popular demand our Mentoring Program.  This program is designed to provide maximum benefit to Mentees in a manageable time frame.

Key features:

• short, sharp & intense (8 sessions over 12 weeks)
• targeted mentor/mentee skills training to ensure consistent high quality experience & outcomes
• exit with crystal clear direction & detailed specific plan to achieve goals
• exit feeling highly focused & 100% committed

Why do I need a Mentor?

Mounting evidence is clearly showing the positive impact of effective mentoring.  A comprehensive study in 2006 by Gartner of over 1,000 workers at Sun Microsystems over a 5 year period, revealed the following benefits of mentoring:

• 25% of employees who enrolled in a mentoring program had a salary-grade change, while only 5% of workers who did not, had a change
• Mentees were promoted 5 times more often than those not in a mentoring program
• Mentees experience higher career satisfaction, career commitment, career mobility & positive job attitude

About the Trainer:

Sonya Trau is a Senior Business Leadership Coach with AltusQ & involved in design & delivery of numerous corporate mentoring programs nationally for over 4 yrs, including the first industry wide mentoring program in Australia.  She believes passionately in the power of effective mentoring skills & relationships both for individuals involved & organisations to which they belong.  She has spent much of the last 15yrs consulting, advising & coaching in corporates, NFPs & mid-sized businesses across numerous industries.  Sonya’s extensive practical business management experience in multinationals & Australian IT firms uniquely enables her to effectively translate the ‘soft stuff’ into practical, tangible outcomes for business & people in the business.

What will be covered in the workshop:

• Understanding mentoring & how it differs from coaching, consulting, training, counseling & facilitation
• Understanding key stages - what to focus on & when
• Specific roles & responsibilities - managing expectations
• Overcoming the status gap
• Goals: awareness, analysis, clarifying & articulating
• Process: how it works, who’s responsible for what
• The Flow: before, during & between meetings
• Developing & maintaining longevity of the relationship
• Dealing with common challenges
  
• Workbooks and tools to use throughout the program

After completion of the workshop you will be given access to a mentor for an 8 week period culminating in a Luncheon to regroup, network and hear of the successes.

Note: you cannot take part in the program unless you complete this workshop.