Establishing & Supporting Successful Mentoring Relationships

Mentoring plays a critical role in recruiting, developing, and retaining talented and capable professionals. This workshop introduces a framework for developing and supporting a mentoring program including training and institutional support necessary to ensure its success.

Potential topic areas include:

• Why mentoring
• Establishing a mentoring program: essential elements
• Roles and responsibilities of mentors and mentees
• Four stages of the mentoring relationship
• Mentoring styles
• Feedback skills
• Professional development planning
• Structural components:
  • Matching mentors and mentees
  • Time commitments
  • Program oversight