Overview

The Mentorship at Work workshops are fast-paced, comprehensive courses that provide practical tools to develop communication and mentoring skills. They provide clear and simple tools to help you manage change and growth in the workplace. They improve the way employees communicate with each other. The programs are based on the best mentorship practices currently used in business and education.

The Need

The Mentorship at Work workshops were developed to help solve your real business issues. They show you how to:

• Master a simple model for communication between individuals and across teams.
• Help new employees become more proficient, in less time.
• Increase employee motivation and retention.
• Learn how to make better decisions.
• Become a better manager through delegation and motivation.
• Be a better leader and develop the new leaders in your organization.
• Give retiring employees a way to share their experience and knowledge before they leave.

Choose from a One or Three-Day Workshop

We realize that different organizations are better suited to different workshops delivery styles. For this reason, we have developed one or three day workshops. While the basic information is the same, the three-day workshop allows students to try the material in-between sessions. This provides them more opportunity to gain feedback on the following sessions and compare and learn from others. The one-day workshop is more "compressed", yet allows each participant to communicate with the presenter after the workshop to obtain feedback and gain further insights into their mentoring skill development.

Workshop Outline

Both workshops introduce simple, practical tools that can be applied immediately within the organization. Specifically, they:

• Teach a practical model of mentoring.
• Describe a mentoring process that can be used for decision making, problem solving and setting and achieving goals; and
• Provide strategies for developing productive mentoring relationships.

On-line Software Support

All Mentorship at Work programs include a software support package that helps participants manage their mentoring relationships. This software includes a roadmap that guides the mentors and mentees through the mentorship experience. It also includes the many mentoring support materials that are discussed throughout the workshop. This software is available to all participants for a period of one year.

Intended Audience

Mentorship at Work workshops are designed for people in your organization who are accountable for managing others or responsible for teaching others. They work especially well for the development of first-time managers.

Instructor

Bernard Vincent created the Mentorship at Work program in response to the growing need for mentorship training among his coaching and consulting clients. Bernard has a solid education and background in business.

Education

• Certified Executive Coach, Royal Roads University
• Master of Business Administration, Queen's University
• Master of Science, University of Alberta
• Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, University of Alberta

Feedback from Recent Workshops

"The workshop was very interesting and very well thought out."

"I can't think of anything that I would do to improve this workshop."

"This workshop changed the way I see mentorship."

"The class size of 12 was perfect!"

"Very personal workshop."

"The conversations throughout the workshop were very interesting."

"Learning how to have a mentoring conversation was extremely useful."