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Mentoring Counterpart Staff in International Development

Facilitator: TBA
Dates: TBA. Please register your interest with IDSS.
 

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

TBA 
  

Venue

TBA
 

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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