Client : Various clients including The Learning Collaboration, Cambridge, voluntary sector groups, not-for-profit organisations and commercial businesses. Requirement : Workshops for new mentors to develop an understanding of mentoring, practise mentoring skills and build confidence to begin mentoring. Solution : CBP prepared tailored, one-day workshops designed to: create a good understanding of mentoring, and how it differs both from counselling and from coaching give delegates the chance to practise with roleplay, and to receive feedback on their technique help people to recognise and refine the mentoring skills they may already have – and to use those skills as effectively as possible give mentors a model for managing the beginning, middle and end of the mentoring relationship. Outcome : A successful, popular course that has been used to good effect by many different organisations. Comments from participants include: ‘Excellent – thank you – I now understand current mentoring practice’; ‘It was all useful and confirmed that I am doing the right thing’; ‘I liked the practical and explanatory style and the opportunity to role play and explore’; ‘The models of different processes in mentoring will be useful in my work’; ‘It will give me more insight as to where my mentees are coming from’.

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