Mentoring Skills for Senior Managers

"Give me a lever long enough and I can move the world!" - Archimedes

In leadership development, the powerful leveraging effect of mentoring is often overlooked.

A mentor is a guide, a trusted advisor who prepares a person for a position often before they even hold that postion. Mentoring is an attitude and an effective way to develop and retain high potential employees.

Developing a culture that supports mentoring and training the skills required to effectively mentor is sadly lacking in many organistations.A Gallup study showed that whilst most CEO’s ‘mentored’ by taking employees to lunch, very few had any formal mentoring programs in place. Most senior leaders, receive little or no coaching or mentoring training.

Mentoring Skills Training

At Self Leadership International we specialise in facilitating leadership development cultures that include coaching and mentoring.

A good mentor is:

• Someone who has experience in field (they have been there before).
• Someone whose integrity transcends the message, be it positive or negative.
• Someone who tells you things you may not want to hear but lets you know you have been heard.
• Someone who makes you want to better and to take risks.
• Someone who presents opportunities and highlights challenges you might not have seen on your own.

Mentoring Skills Program includes training and role plays around:

• The role of the mentor
• Establishing a mentor/mentee relationship
• Excellent listening skills
• Asking probing questions
• How to challenge mindsets
• Positive influence
• Do's and don't of the mentoring process

Mentoring is a personal relationship, for mentoring to be successful it needs to be part of the leadership development culture of the organisation.

Contact us now to learn more about Mentoring for Senior Managers.

We are based in Singapore but conduct programmes for our clients in Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, India and the Middle East and Worldwide..