Mentoring and Decision Making Training Course
This Mentoring training course will help to fill the gap and deliver guidelines that are useful for anyone in a mentoring relationship.
The relationship between mentor and mentee is all about mutual sharing, learning and the personal and professional development of both parties. The training course is designed to offer mentors and mentees an insight into the meaning of effective mentoring. By learning skills like goal setting, giving feedback, and active listening, you will be better prepared to be mentored or to be a mentor.
Objectives
- Describe mentoring & its application in today's workplace
- Practice mentoring in the development of other people
- Create, maintain & transition a mentoring relationship
- Master specific behaviors to maximize the impact of a mentoring relationship
- Determine which behaviors to stay away from in a mentoring relationship
- Apply mentoring to improve the workplace
Course Outline
What is Mentoring & Why it Matters
- What Mentors do
- The enabling Mentor
- Mentoring today
- What does mentoring look like?
- The power of relationships in our lives
- Mentors care beyond the work
- A mentor goes above and beyond
Creating a Mentoring Relationship
- Stages of development
- Where to begin
- The Mentoring Match
- Determining Mentee expectations
- Developing a partnership
- Guiding principles
- Creating a Mentor/Mentee Agreement
- Two-Way Mentoring / Reverse Mentoring
Maintaining a Mentoring Relationship
- Adopting a change attitude
- Managing change
- Coping mechanisms
- Mirroring
- Validation
- It's rarely black or white
- Progressive adaptation
Navigating the Mentoring Relationship
- Effective mentoring tools
- Shifting context
- Active listening
- Naming feelings
- Listening for motivation
- Constructive confrontation
- Information that has positive impact
- Giving permission
- Being genuinely curious
Fine Tuning & Transitioning the Mentoring Relationship
- Fine Tuning and transitioning
- Potential pitfall one: giving criticism
- Potential pitfall two: giving advice
- Potential Pitfall three: trying to rescue
- Transitioning the relationship
What Is Decision Making?
- What are the characteristics of a good and bad decision-maker?
- How much analysis do you need to do?
- What is involved in decision-making process?
How to Choose Actions
- How to choose between a set of options where each has its own advantages and disadvantages
- How to make a quantifiable comparison between alternative options
- How to systematically compare related options
- How to systematically compare unrelated options
How to Analyse the Impact of Your Actions
- How to use a measure to compare pros and cons
- How to carry out a force field analysis
- How to compare the benefits versus the costs of taking different options
- How to systematically analyse a cascade of decisions where one leads to another
- How to visualise your decision-making process
- What tools can you use to increase your creativity when making decisions so you can come up with more options?
How to Decide in Groups
- What are the implications of deciding in groups?
- Why thinking in groups can sometimes be so frustrating?
- What can you do to increase the efficiency of your meetings?
- How to prevent dominant people from take over the meeting or the decision making process
- How to encourage newcomers or those who are shy to present their views without fear of criticism
- What tools can you use to streamline the process of group decision-making?
- How to avoid groupthink, where participants are so eager to reach a decision without causing conflicts that they end up choosing a wrong solution
What Are the Principles of Decision Making?
- Do you always have to make sure you get a better bargain than others?
- What are the philosophical implications of complexity when making decisions?
- What is the best way to plan your course of action and what principles you need to be aware of?
- What can you learn from game theory when making decisions?
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Gilbert Pineda - Quartzelec Ltd (Philippines Branch)
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Course - Digital Transformation: Disrupting the Common Delivery of the Common Business Landscape
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