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Staff Mentoring Programme
25 September 2010
Content
• Origins of programme• Roles• The mentoring ‘contract’ • ‘What ifs’• Measures of success• Next steps
Origins of Programme
The mentee
• To own and drive programme• Ability to receive and give honest and constructive
feedback• A desire to use initiative and independence• An acceptance that a mentor is not there to do your
work for you and may not have all the answers all the time
• Expectation of a peer relationship, not a manager/subordinate relationship
The mentor
• Willingness to share skills, knowledge, and expertise
• Take a personal interest in the mentoring relationship
• Value on going learning and growth • Provide guidance and constructive feedback • Help to set and meet on-going professional goals • Understand purpose of role and relationship with
others
Manager, mentor & mentee
• Support• Advice• Coaching• Development
• Accountable to manager• Peer relationship with mentor• Responsible for own
development
• Objectives• Workload• Resources• School performance
The mentoring ‘contract’
purpose and aims
meetings
parameters
progress
measures of success
Purpose and aims
• What do you want to achieve – start with broad aims
• Goal setting – what can you realistically achieve?
• Review progress at each meeting• These will develop through time• Don’t be put off by a slow start
Goal setting
•Discuss progress•What works, what doesn’t work and why?
•Implement change in the workplace
•Review cycle doesn’t stop, continue to refine and develop
•Trial of ideas in the workplace
•Record progress for discussion at next meeting
•Discussion about achieving goals
•Identification of appropriate actions
Plan Do
CheckAct
Goal setting• Discussion about
achieving goals• Identification of
appropriate actions
Plan Do
CheckAct
Goal setting• Trial of ideas in the
workplace• Record progress for
discussion at next meeting
Plan Do
CheckAct
Goal setting
• Discuss progress• What works,
what doesn’t work and why?
Plan Do
CheckAct
Goal setting
•Implement change in the workplace
•Review cycle doesn’t stop, continue to refine and develop
Plan Do
CheckAct
Goal setting
•Discuss progress•What works, what doesn’t work and why?
•Implement change in the workplace
•Review cycle doesn’t stop, continue to refine and develop
•Trial of ideas in the workplace
•Record progress for discussion at next meeting
•Discussion about achieving goals
•Identification of appropriate actions
Plan Do
CheckAct
Meetings
• Frequency– Existing schemes recommend 1 per month– St Andrews University reported average of 7
meetings over 12 months on 2010 programme• Duration– Recommend to set aside 1 hour per month– Up to pairs to decide but duration should be
agreed at start of programme
Parameters
• How do you want to communicate?
• When and how often should you communicate?
• What might be appropriate and inappropriate ‘subject matter’?
Progress
• Record progress against goals• Commitment to report progress to
programme coordinators• Information used to evaluate on going success
of programme• Templates available on website
What if….
…I find that I don’t have the time?…My personal circumstances change?…I don’t get on with my mentor/mentee?…My mentor leaves?…My manager isn’t happy with my involvement?…I am not sure if it is working for me….?
…speak to your programme coordinators!
Measures of Success & Programme Evaluation
Measures of success
• ‘to develop my management and leadership capabilities’
• ‘to become a world class researcher’• ‘to write successful publications’• ‘to be an effective networker’• ‘to improve my confidence’• ‘to gain promotion to senior lecturer’
Evaluating impact
• Why evaluate the programme?• Evaluation framework
– (1) Perception-based indicators– (2) Subjective indicators– (3) Objective indicators
• (1) & (2) will depend on mentee goals• Mentees to develop alongside goals– Mentor/coordinator input
• Capture baseline during 1st month
Next Steps