Mentoring Skills for Leaders The University of Sydney

Overview

Learn to build success in your team and your business by mentoring your people. Mentoring is a one-to-one relationship in which you, as a leader, actively help an employee reflect on strengths, solve problems and build career resilience.

What you will learn

By the end of this Mentoring Skills for Leaders course offered by University of Sydney, you should be able to:

• describe the difference between coaching, mentoring and counselling

• choose when and how to mentor in professional contexts

• build intrinsic motivation, using positive goal setting tools

• help staff learn from experience, by fostering growth mindsets

• pinpoint and develop a mentee’s signature strengths

• adapt and apply the GROW coaching cycle to a mentoring conversation

• deliver developmental feedback which promotes success

• apply simple career guidance and positive goal setting tools to the mentoring context.