This transformative course will equip you with the skills and knowledge to become an exceptional mentor. Mentoring is a vital tool for balanced lifelong learning and professional development. Through a lens of clear career development goals, this practical course gives you the skills, knowledge, and approaches to make the most of any long-term mentoring relationship – as both a mentor and a mentee. Ideal for those new to mentoring or a professional looking to refresh their mentoring skills with some new perspectives
COURSE LENGTH:
COURSE STRUCTURE:
- Introduction to Mentoring
- The Mentoring Process
- Management Styles
- Mentoring for Professional Development
- Maintaining Motivation
- Mentoring & Emotional Intelligence
- Feedback in the Mentoring Process
- Communication & Listening Skills
- Team Mentoring
- Developing a Mentoring Programme
STUDY OPTIONS:
Part Time
1 x 3 hour live online evening class per week over 10 weeks
SUMMARY:
Modern leadership has moved away from autocratic management styles to embrace mentoring and coaching methods, improving both motivation and performance. Mentoring is an excellent way to promote knowledge retention and knowledge transfer within a team or organisation and is a powerful tool for career progression. In a corporate landscape littered with challenges such as retaining staff and preserving institutional knowledge, mentoring is the opportunity!
This course looks at the mentoring relationship from both sides, teaching you how to be a good mentor and mentee. With a strong focus on building long-term relationships that achieve major development goals, the course will introduce you to vital skills such as reflective observation, empathy, and self-awareness. Learning how to apply emotional intelligence, you’ll come to understand what motivates others, and yourself, and how this can be influenced to achieve positive outcomes.
The rounded learnings of this course will also enable you to develop an effective mentorship programme for your own organisation. With plenty of opportunity for feedback and group discussions, you will learn to navigate difficult conversations with finesse, foster supportive and productive environments that encourage a culture of continuous learning, and drive performance and retention. This inspiring exploration will help you become an outstanding mentor and unlock your potential for personal growth, enhanced emotional intelligence, and professional excellence.
Students taking part in this course will now have access to the EBSCO Online Library, free of charge, for the full duration of the course. Here you can browse thousands of relevant journal articles and other reliable academic and commercial texts like the Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg Business week and Forbes Magazine, to supplement your learning and assignments.
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES:
A well-rounded professional has a wide range of soft and hard skills, and mentoring expertise is a powerful tool for career progression. To be of true value in an organisation, your ability to empower and bring value to others is as important as the role-specific skills and knowledge you possess. Demonstrating your ability to both mentor and be mentored, this course will give you the confidence to discuss interview topics such as problem solving using mentorship techniques, applying emotional intelligence, and strategies for improving motivation and therefore performance.
ASSESSMENT AND CERTIFICATION
This course is assessed through two assignments, a weekly reflective log in a form of a journal and a final written project, allowing you to demonstrate your understanding of the course material and how it applies in a real-world scenario such as your current role. The journal (worth 40% of your assessment) is completed weekly and the final project (worth 60% of your assessment) of approximately 3,000 words is submitted after the end of the course. This will demonstrate the depth of your understanding of the opportunities and challenges of mentoring and how they can influence the growth and development of a team within an organisation.
Your UCD Professional Academy Diploma will be issued electronically on a secure platform, with a link that you can share with employers and others wishing to verify your credentials. You’ll also be able to add the certification to your LinkedIn profile to demonstrate your achievement to your network as well as recruiters and potential employers searching for individuals with your skills and experience.
This course is not on the National Framework of Qualifications.
STUDENT PROFILE:
This course would suit anyone who wants to continue developing their professional careers and become more successful in seeking, establishing, and driving productive mentorship relationships. It is particularly relevant for individuals who have built up expertise and now want to contribute in a structured, productive, and rewarding way. It would also be beneficial for professionals who are planning to implement mentorship programmes in their organisations and would like a good understanding of the dynamics and benefits of mentorship. This course focuses on mentoring and does not cover coaching skills.
