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Mentoring Skills Training Course

Our Mentoring Skills training course is delivered as an online virtual open course. We can also deliver the course in-house just for your business as an in-person course or a live virtual online course.

Mentoring Skills Course Highlights

Here’s some quick information about our Mentoring Skills course:

  • 1-day training course delivered online
  • Delivered anywhere in Ireland as an in-house course
  • Booking is easy. Just select a location, a date and hit Book Now!

Course Overview

Course Aim

This Mentoring Skills training course will provide you with information and tips for developing and managing the mentor/mentee relationship.

As organisations look for different ways to develop the skills of their people, mentoring is becoming a much used method and this workshop focuses on the skills and approaches necessary to become an effective mentor.

Course Objectives

By attending this Mentoring Skills training course, you will:

  • Have defined mentoring and coaching and how to use these skills in a mentoring relationship
  • Know the benefits of mentoring to all parties concerned
  • Be able to demonstrate use of appropriate language in mentoring
  • Have learnt/revisited and practised a coaching model
  • Have considered issues of confidentiality in a mentoring relationship

Course Content

What is Mentoring?
  • Defining what is meant by mentoring
  • The differences between mentoring, coaching and training
  • What are the benefits of mentoring?
Mentoring Skills
  • What are the skills required to be an effective mentor?
  • How can you develop these skills?
The Mentoring Relationship
  • Setting up the mentoring relationship
  • Setting expectations
  • The responsibilities of the mentor and the mentee
  • Preparing and holding an effective mentor/mentee meeting
Learning Styles
  • Understanding learning styles to get the best from people
  • How to identify the styles
Questioning and Listening
  • Why effective questioning and listening play a key part
  • Asking effective questions
  • Listening to responses
Skills Practice
  • An opportunity to practice the skills

Download the Course Brochure

Download a copy of our Mentoring Skills training course brochure below.

Download Mentoring Skills Course Brochure

Our Approach

No PowerPoint

Yes, you read that right! We’ve removed PowerPoint from our in-person training courses. Instead we use more creative ways to deliver content and generate discussion.

Always Interactive

No matter how you attend, our courses are interactive and designed specifically for the delivery method being used.

Practical Tools

We minimise theory and focus on practical tools you can take away and use immediately in the workplace.

Clear Pricing

Transparent pricing for open courses and clear all-inclusive quotes for in-house and bespoke work.

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