Effective mentoring online programme
An engaging online course that explores the key elements of becoming an effective mentor
Introducing our effective mentoring course
This programme will inspire and encourage participants to become the best mentors they can be now and onwards. It provides mentors with a strong foundation that they can build upon easily and from which they can develop their mentoring capabilities. Each mentor will benefit from being within the group context, where everyone’s ideas, experiences and questions are valued.
The programme will build reassurance and confidence. Providing participants with a broad understanding of what is involved in becoming an effective mentor, as well as a host of practical ideas and techniques they can apply immediately.
Aims of the programme
The course will:
- Create a safe and interactive group learning environment that provides a positive and firm foundation for new mentors to start their mentoring journey
- Provide an overview of the key elements involved in mentoring relationships. This includes some theory and the practical aspects involved and how mentoring links to the business
- Ensure that mentors know how to create focus, hold boundaries, contract well and use their relationship building skills to form positive mentoring relationships
- Offer tips about how to avoid pitfalls, how to deal with resistance, stuckness and overwhelm
- Explore ways of dealing with difficult emotions or the unexpected during the mentoring sessions
- Introduce new mentors to a variety of different tools, techniques and approaches so that they can begin to create their own bank of mentoring resources
Be clear and able to communicate what inspires participants about their purpose in mentoring others
Course resources
An informative and practical PDF Course Resource Book, and additional resources will be provided for all participants at the start of the course.
About the course leader
Jude Elliman is always the course leader for this particular training. She is the course designer and one of the founders of the Listening Partnership. She is a highly experienced executive coach, supervisor, trainer and L&OD specialist. She has developed mentoring programmes for individuals, youth workers, HR professionals and first-line leaders in a range of organisations locally and internationally.
She is a natural mentor herself, able to draw alongside others to enhance their capacity to shape the skills and experiences of others. She lives her values of respecting others’ experience, believing in the resourcefulness of her clients and their potential for success. Jude is committed to training new mentors, as she believes that they do have the potential to make a real and significant difference within their contexts.
Approachable, empathic, driven by a love of making things relevant, she can translate ideas into action and ground what she creates in practical outcomes.
Jude’s approach is collaborative, informative and creative. Her humour and relationship building skills thread through her work. She knows from direct experience how effective mentoring can have a positive and enduring ripple effect in organisations.
Meet our directors
“The Listening Partnership’s course is extremely impactful and engaging. Jude knows how to transfer her knowledge, share her expertise, and empower people to have the confidence to begin mentoring straight away.”
Kathy Greethurst
HR Consultant and Executive Coach
What makes a great mentor?
Have you ever enjoyed the support of a skilled mentor, someone whose qualities and attitudes have helped you become the best you can be? Maybe you've been lucky enough to have had more than one fantastic mentor helping you reach your goals?
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Emotions are essential to human survival. But it’s all too easy for them to run away with us, especially under pressure. If you’ve ever really lost your temper in a work context you’ll know how unproductive it is. It can be difficult to handle and manage your emotions unless you know how you’re feeling from one moment to the next.
“The Listening Partnership’s course is extremely impactful and engaging. Jude knows how to transfer her knowledge, share her expertise, and empower people to have the confidence to begin mentoring straight away.”
Kathy Greethurst
HR Consultant and Executive Coach
‘This course was a really good learning experience for me. As a result of being on it, I understand ways of approaching significant conversations, not only for specific mentoring purposes but also in my life in general, and especially in the workplace.’
Shigetoshi Yamouchi
Co-Head of the Business Co-ordination Department
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank Ltd
“I have learnt and grown so much as a person, both professionally and personally through this work with Jude. Her style is insightful, creative, challenging and practical. I can highly recommend her to anyone.”
Sophie Brown
Director
Amber and Gold
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What makes a great mentor?
Have you ever enjoyed the support of a skilled mentor, someone whose qualities and attitudes have helped you become the best you can be? Maybe you've been lucky enough to have had more than one fantastic mentor helping you reach your goals?
What is Emotional Intelligence? EQ is vital ingredient for success
Emotions are essential to human survival. But it’s all too easy for them to run away with us, especially under pressure. If you’ve ever really lost your temper in a work context you’ll know how unproductive it is. It can be difficult to handle and manage your emotions unless you know how you’re feeling from one moment to the next.
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Introducing our effective mentoring course
This programme will inspire and encourage participants to become the best mentors they can be now and onwards. It provides mentors with a strong foundation that they can build upon easily and from which they can develop their mentoring capabilities. Each mentor will benefit from being within the group context, where everyone’s ideas, experiences and questions are valued.
The programme will build reassurance and confidence. Providing participants with a broad understanding of what is involved in becoming an effective mentor, as well as a host of practical ideas and techniques they can apply immediately.
Aims of the programme
The course will:
- Create a safe and interactive group learning environment that provides a positive and firm foundation for new mentors to start their mentoring journey
- Provide an overview of the key elements involved in mentoring relationships. This includes some theory and the practical aspects involved and how mentoring links to the business
- Ensure that mentors know how to create focus, hold boundaries, contract well and use their relationship building skills to form positive mentoring relationships
- Offer tips about how to avoid pitfalls, how to deal with resistance, stuckness and overwhelm
- Explore ways of dealing with difficult emotions or the unexpected during the mentoring sessions
- Introduce new mentors to a variety of different tools, techniques and approaches so that they can begin to create their own bank of mentoring resources
Be clear and able to communicate what inspires participants about their purpose in mentoring others
Course resources
An informative and practical PDF Course Resource Book, and additional resources will be provided for all participants at the start of the course.
About the course leader
Jude Elliman is always the course leader for this particular training. She is the course designer and one of the founders of the Listening Partnership. She is a highly experienced executive coach, supervisor, trainer and L&OD specialist. She has developed mentoring programmes for individuals, youth workers, HR professionals and first-line leaders in a range of organisations locally and internationally.
She is a natural mentor herself, able to draw alongside others to enhance their capacity to shape the skills and experiences of others. She lives her values of respecting others’ experience, believing in the resourcefulness of her clients and their potential for success. Jude is committed to training new mentors, as she believes that they do have the potential to make a real and significant difference within their contexts.
Approachable, empathic, driven by a love of making things relevant, she can translate ideas into action and ground what she creates in practical outcomes.
Jude’s approach is collaborative, informative and creative. Her humour and relationship building skills thread through her work. She knows from direct experience how effective mentoring can have a positive and enduring ripple effect in organisations.
Meet our directors
“The Listening Partnership’s course is extremely impactful and engaging. Jude knows how to transfer her knowledge, share her expertise, and empower people to have the confidence to begin mentoring straight away.”
Kathy Greethurst
HR Consultant and Executive Coach
What makes a great mentor?
Have you ever enjoyed the support of a skilled mentor, someone whose qualities and attitudes have helped you become the best you can be? Maybe you've been lucky enough to have had more than one fantastic mentor helping you reach your goals?
What is Emotional Intelligence? EQ is vital ingredient for success
Emotions are essential to human survival. But it’s all too easy for them to run away with us, especially under pressure. If you’ve ever really lost your temper in a work context you’ll know how unproductive it is. It can be difficult to handle and manage your emotions unless you know how you’re feeling from one moment to the next.
“The Listening Partnership’s course is extremely impactful and engaging. Jude knows how to transfer her knowledge, share her expertise, and empower people to have the confidence to begin mentoring straight away.”
Kathy Greethurst
HR Consultant and Executive Coach
‘This course was a really good learning experience for me. As a result of being on it, I understand ways of approaching significant conversations, not only for specific mentoring purposes but also in my life in general, and especially in the workplace.’
Shigetoshi Yamouchi
Co-Head of the Business Co-ordination Department
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank Ltd
“I have learnt and grown so much as a person, both professionally and personally through this work with Jude. Her style is insightful, creative, challenging and practical. I can highly recommend her to anyone.”
Sophie Brown
Director
Amber and Gold
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