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Mentoring Counterpart Staff in International Development

Facilitator: Peter Stephen
Dates: 14 - 15 October (Thurs-Fri) 2010
Early Bird Registration:  2 September 2010
 

Who is it for?

The course is suitable for program and project staff working with national counterpart staff in international projects and programs. The course is both intended to help those likely to be a mentor as well support mentees to ensure they get the most out of their mentoring program. Some understanding of capacity building and learning processes and practices would be beneficial, but not essential.
 

Course Description 

A good mentoring process can strengthen an individuals’ knowledge, skills, networks, confidence and motivation, leading to improved performance. It is now a widely accepted practice to assist in the professional development of staff in both the private and public sectors. At the core of a mentoring process is a voluntary and professional relationship between people that is bound by mutual respect, sharing of ideas and a two-way learning process.
 
But mentoring is a difficult process both for the mentor, the mentee and the supporting organizations. It can not be pushed or hurried; it is not supervision, training or teaching; it is not only about knowledge transfer (even though this may be an important element of a mentoring process) and it is not a short term process.
 
This course will introduce participants to the key principles and practices of a successful mentoring program and allow participants to gain a deeper understanding of how to be a good mentor, factors and issues that would prevent good outcomes, resources and support required and types of mentoring approaches.
 

Course Content

  • What is mentoring, why is it so special and what makes it different to other capacity building approaches?
  • Exploring the purpose of a mentoring approach for both the mentor and mentee;
  • Types of mentoring approaches;
  • Good practice guide to mentoring;
  • Resources and systems required to support a good mentoring process;
  • What happens when things go wrong?
  • Mentoring across cultures.
 

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course participants will be able to:
  • Understand the key issues in establishing and maintaining a long term and productive mentoring relationship for both the mentor and the mentee; 
  • Identify resources and systems required to support both the mentor and mentee during the mentoring process; 
  • Describe and apply some of the key mentoring principles to assist in developing a successful approach to mentoring as well as recognising key constraints that would prevent a mentoring process from succeeding;
  • Positively respond to situations when the mentoring processes does not go to plan and those involved in the mentoring relationship are feeling less than excited about it;
  • Understand some of the critical issues of mentoring across cultures;
  • Apply the learning from the course to his/her own work/practise environment.
 

Course Fees

Early Bird Fee        
Regular Fee 
Full Fee
AU$730.00
AU$780.00 
Staff from ACFID member organisations            
AU$680.00
AU$730.00
RMIT University students (with assessment)
AU$650.00
AU$700.00
  
    • The above course fees are applicable for participants based within Australia only. All course fees are inclusive of GST and they cover registration, course materials and meals during the course delivery.
    • To qualify for Early Bird registration fees, course fees must be paid to IDSS within the early bird registration deadline. Beyond that the regular fee will be applicable to all registrations including the existing ones which were not paid within the deadline.
    • Overseas participants will incur an additional fee of AU$40.00 (inclusive of GST) to cover the additional cost of processing overseas payments and registration. Please click here for further information relevant to overseas participants.
    • The assessment task is included within the course fees for students of RMIT University who are currently enrolled in academic programs relevant to the course and are going to claim advanced standing/Recognised Prior Learning (RPL) status. Participants who are willing to complete similar follow-up assessment task are requested to contact IDSS directly before submitting their enrolment request. An additional fee of AU$110.00 (inclusive of GST) will be applicable.
  

Venue

IDSS Pty Ltd
Level 12, 60 Albert Road
SOUTH MELBOURNE  VIC  3205
AUSTRALIA
 

Registration:

Participants are requested to read the IDSS Training Policy before applying for registration/enrolment.

To register/enrol, download the Enrolment Form here and email your completed form through to training@idss.com.au
 
For additional information please contact:

Ruth Garner
Phone: + 61 8 8919 9767
Fax: + 61 8 8919 9750

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