FOR ORGANISATIONS & INDIVIDUALS
Mentor Development with Abintus
As mentoring’s popularity grows, it’s important that your mentors’ development meaningfully reflects how the organisation wishes to use it. Also, the Mentor role becomes a fulfilling one. And that starts with how you develop your Mentors. Abintus’ Mentor development is trusted to provide the right amount of theory, knowledge, discussion, skills and practice to create motivated, confident and competent mentors for your organisations.
We take the pain, time and energy away from you and transform your delegates’ thinking, approaches, skills, mindsets and behaviours around their ability to mentor others.
They will become valuable additions and advocates for your organisational mentoring provision.
What Abintus can help you with…
- Guide you with the best content for your workshops or programmes
- Provide you with content design and development you can trust
- Engaging and stretching facilitated Mentor development sessions
- Help you to create a ‘cradle to grave’ mentoring programme, processes and support materials
- Ongoing support, CPD activities and Mentor supervision
MENTOR DEVELOPMENT FOR:
Employees who wish to mentor their peers to support growth and development informally
Employees who are part of an organisational mentoring offering
Individuals supporting graduates and apprentices
Leaders who wish to further the learning, growth and careers of their reports
Organisations wishing to maximise the growth of their 'talent'
Let’s build your perfect Mentor Development programme
Our mentor development days start at ÂŁ950 + VAT with a minimum of 4 attendees. Whether 12 people attend, the price remains the same.
- For a 1-day programme, the core content (see below) is covered, plus one piece of optional content.
- For 2-day programmes, delegates can choose up to 3 optional areas.
Ready to see the difference a truly personalised approach can make?
Your next steps
browse the content
Please take a look at our core and optional programme content that fits your goals.
complete the form:
Complete the form below to help us understand your needs. The more detail you provide, the better we can tailor our proposal to meet your goals. Just let us know your challenges, and we’ll take care of the rest. After you book, you’ll receive a confirmation email. Our lead facilitator, Nick, will be in touch within 24 hours to confirm your diagnostic & discovery session.
DIAGNOSTIC & discovery session:
Discuss in detail the challenges your team and organisation face for Nick to be able to design your bespoke workshop and send you the price within 48 hours of your session and an invoice to secure your date.
Let’s have a chat
Let’s explore your aims and hopes for your mentoring, so that we can create something that exceeds your expectations.
- For you, what does ‘good’ look like for your developed coaches?
- What would you like to build into the coaching from an organisational perspective?
- What thoughts have you given to making your coaching programme impactful in the organisation?
- How can our coaching expertise help you bring your coaching programme to life…
What’s included in our Mentor Development programmes
Our mentor development programme covers a broad range of essential and optional topics, allowing you to tailor the experience to your organisation’s needs.
Choose your number of days
Our mentor development days start at ÂŁ950 + VAT with a minimum of 4 attendees. Whether 12 people attend, the price remains the same.
- For a 1-day programme, the core content (see below) is covered, plus one piece of optional content.
- For 2-day programmes, delegates can choose up to 3 optional areas.
CORE CONTENT
- Shaping our understanding of what mentoring is
- Types of modern organisational mentoring
- Opportunities for mentoring within your organisation
- Roles and responsibilities of mentors
- The mentoring and coaching dynamic
- Mentoring skills of listening and questioning within mentee development
- Starting, managing and ending the mentee relationship
- Shaping the mentoring conversation
- Harnessing mentee engagement
OPTIONAL CONTENT
- Contacting in mentoring
- Reflection in the mentoring process
- Peer to peer mentoring
- Reverse mentoring
- Mentoring tools and approaches
- Retirement mentoring
- Mentoring graduates and apprentices
- Mentoring and networks
WORKSHOP PRE-WORK
MENTORING PRACTICE AND REFLECTION
We further enable this practice and reflection through our tutor support, review sessions and mentor coaching. An invaluable activity, and a key investment in helping mentors maximise their growth and impact.
Prices
Investment in your mentoring development
ÂŁ950 + VAT per delivery day
We work towards groups of 4-12 people per workshop. [Abintus reserve the right to postpone or cancel workshops where the number falls below 4 people].
However, we design your workshop so that it is bespoke to your organisation. Any tailoring of content, workbooks, or additional resources is charged extra.
Terms & conditions
Please read our full terms and conditions for booking a course.
Recognition ready…
If you are an organisation wishing to ensure that the development for your coaches is recognised by a governing body, Abintus can work with you to design and ensure it is ready to be assessed.
Client feedback
Motivational and energising
“Nick is an engaging and charismatic trainer, which is a massive benefit when you are spending three days on a course. This was a great training session that was pitched at the correct level and was motivational and energising.”
– Corporate training attendee
Freed up my time to develop my leadership skills and grow within my role
“Over the past six months, I’ve had the chance to reflect on how I work, and it didn’t take long to realise that the reason I struggled to make time for coaching at first was because I wasn’t working efficiently. With support from Nick I’ve focused on key areas that enabled me step back from the day-to-day operations, giving me more space to be an effective manager. That, in turn, has freed up time to develop my leadership skills and grow within my role. I understand there is a long way to go and this will be a continuous and evolving process. The impact on me in such a short space of time has been incredibly positive. My work life balance is back on track which is brilliant. The monthly meetings with Nick made me maintain focus and reflect regularly. My line manager has fed back to me that she has noticed some really positive changes in my approach to work and managing my time more effectively as well.”
– 1:1 Coaching client
Applicable, interactive and challenging
“My aim after this course is to set my team up for success. Nick is an amazing trainer, very engaged and created a safe and open environment where everyone could share their own experience from which we could learn and grow. He provided valuable insights and made this course applicable, interactive, he challenged our own assumptions and gave us tools to become better coaches.”
– Leadership mentoring
What to expect from Mentor Development through Abintus
BENEFITS OF MENTOR DEVELOPMENT…
Best practice content. Altraining aligns with industry standards and proven methods.
Experiential and real-time focus to ensure greater application of learning to the workplace.
Continual sharing of insight, feedback and challenge around their mentor thinking and behaviours.
Experienced professional mentor and coach facilitator.
Skills transferable to a range of organisational mentoring scenarios.
Hugely cost-effective, representing a fantastic employee investment opportunity.
A vital support and value add to your organisational mentoring aspirations.
BY THE END OF THE MENTOR DEVELOPMENT YOU WILL…
Have greater tools, ideas, questioning ability and confidence in your ability to coach.
Be able to blend existing coaching skills and knowledge to wider operational and leadership situations.
Have the confidence to use coaching in both informal and formal scenarios
Have enhanced levels of questioning and listening skills and behaviours
Be able to transform employee conversations and outcomes around performance
Become a more rounded, inclusive and people focused leader
Client feedback
Motivational and energising
“Nick is an engaging and charismatic trainer, which is a massive benefit when you are spending three days on a course. This was a great training session that was pitched at the correct level and was motivational and energising.”
– Corporate training attendee
Freed up my time to develop my leadership skills and grow within my role
“Over the past six months, I’ve had the chance to reflect on how I work, and it didn’t take long to realise that the reason I struggled to make time for coaching at first was because I wasn’t working efficiently. With support from Nick I’ve focused on key areas that enabled me step back from the day-to-day operations, giving me more space to be an effective manager. That, in turn, has freed up time to develop my leadership skills and grow within my role. I understand there is a long way to go and this will be a continuous and evolving process. The impact on me in such a short space of time has been incredibly positive. My work life balance is back on track which is brilliant. The monthly meetings with Nick made me maintain focus and reflect regularly. My line manager has fed back to me that she has noticed some really positive changes in my approach to work and managing my time more effectively as well.”
– 1:1 Coaching client
Applicable, interactive and challenging
“My aim after this course is to set my team up for success. Nick is an amazing trainer, very engaged and created a safe and open environment where everyone could share their own experience from which we could learn and grow. He provided valuable insights and made this course applicable, interactive, he challenged our own assumptions and gave us tools to become better coaches.”
– Leadership mentoring
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About your Mentor Facilitator
About Nick
Nick is a qualified coach through Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) and European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) and Qualified Organisational Coach Supervisor through Oxford School of Coaching and Mentoring.
Nick has trained over 250 people in coaching and mentoring skills and supervised over 80 more through their EMCC or Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) coaching qualifications.
As well as a degree in education Nick has received development via ILM and Henley Business School. He continues to assess and internally verify qualification work for ILM.
He is a member of EMCC and for them has acted as a large organisation liaison partner and also delivered continued professional development.
Nick is a Certified DiSC Trainer and uses DiSC to help clients and teams understand their behaviour styles and how to develop them to improve team and individual relationships.
