Many people find it useful to have a mentor to support their management and leadership development. A mentor can help you to stand back from your day-to-day role to gain a wider perspective.
If you are new to management, a more experienced manager, perhaps from a different service area, can be a helpful mentor. If you are an experienced operational manager you might seek a mentor who can help you to think from a more strategic or different perspective.
If you are willing to become a mentor you might like to use our short e-learning programme to consider the role. If you are thinking about seeking a mentor, this elearning programme will help you to plan how you might work with your mentor.
This Element is about mentoring and is divided into five sections. Theses are,
- Mentoring in Health & Social Care
- The Mentoring Process
- Successful Mentoring
- The Mentoring Relationship
- The Outcomes Of Mentoring
Each of these sections should be taken in about 20 minute dips of study time. We also have a library of resource materials where you can find out more about mentoring as well as a series of case studies of organizations that have used a mentoring process. These are important and will allow you to develop the knowledge you have gained through the Elements
The Library for Managing Supervision has a number of resources that you can explore in order to find out more about the subject. These include web sites with useful information and articles and books that are concerned with Mentoring. However these are just some examples of the resources available. They are not an exhaustive list. We hope that you will begin to do your own research as you explore this subject. To help you do this then we have added a search facility in the Library area where you can find out what other materials are available through the Internet. Type into the search box the topic you want like "mentoring" or "mentors" or whatever item you are looking for and then a list of possible relevant sites will appear. Learn to use the search facility by experimenting, as it is a very useful and important tool.
The Case Studies will be developed and added to over time so that you can find real life situations where mentoring has been done well or badly. We would also welcome case study material that you may have so that we can share it with others.
Contributors
Author: Vicky Davidson
Programme duration 2 Hours IHM CPD Credit 4
e-learning elements
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