Synopsis: Development through Mentoring

For organizations wishing to facilitate experienced people sharing their knowledge & skills for the benefit of others this programme is a must.


Programme Overview

Mentoring For Development is designed to facilitate mentoring relationships within and across your organization. It provides additional professional development opportunities to organization members, proactively facilitates networking and win - win relationships, facilitates the sharing of expertise & skills, and models best practice learning techniques.


The Process & Tools

The Performance Attitude has designed this mentoring programme to compliment your existing Human Resource initiatives, and provide an alternative avenue for individuals to explore insights and understanding of the Company and their own career development.

This programme provides the organization with templates, tools and processes for identifying mentors and mentorees, matching mentors with mentorees, involving and managing the line manager relationships of those involved with the programme, and monitoring the progress of the mentoring relationships. In addition this programme provides tools for running mentoring sessions, managing disputes, and for career development. It also provides templates for developing partnership agreements, learning contracts, development plans and objective setting.


Mentoring Workshop

In addition to the tools and processes outlined above The Performance Attitude has also designed a one-day workshop for both mentors and mentorees, which facilitates the foundation setting of the relationship.

This workshop covers:

  • Learning how to learn
  • What mentoring is and is not
  • Roles & responsibilities for both mentors and mentorees
  • The benefits of mentoring
  • Pros' & con's of mentoring for both mentor and mentoree
  • Critical success factors of mentoring relationships
  • Considerations required by mentor and mentoree
  • Getting to know each other
  • Establishing the foundations and agreements for the relationship
  • Commitment to the process
  • Planning future mentoring sessions


Additional Support

The Performance Attitude provides on-going support to the mentors, and to the HR team as required to keep this programme achieving its objectives.