The Mentoring Special Interest Group was formed to bring together mentors and those involved in mentoring programmes. The aim of the group is to explore all aspects of Mentoring within today’s organisational, public and charity sectors and provide support to mentors.
“Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world’s unrealised potential.” Ki Moon (2011) The unbalanced representation of women in leadership is a significant social, cultural, and organisational issue. Given that women now represent 40% of the global working population1, it would be reasonable to expect a comparable gender ratio…
The aim of the mentoring programme is to support and drive change to mentoring and provide wider support to young people at King’s Trust. The mentor development is aimed at existing and new mentors and will create a ‘toolkit’ for taking the young person on the journey. The programme utilises a range of interventions to…
Are you feeling less than certain about your career, how to achieve your goals or what your goals are? Have you plateaued in your career? Maybe it’s time to find a mentor, someone that can help you to the next level. But how do you find the right Mentor? A mentor doesn’t have to be…
Skill #1: Open mindedness By far, one of the most important skills you need to have is the ability to keep an open mind. We all have our own thoughts, our own value system, and our own prejudices but by being open-minded we are open to other’s ideas, arguments, and thoughts that may not typically…
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted on the way people learn and develop the skills they need now and in the future. However, the crisis has proved to be an opportunity to examine how learning and development is delivered, to embrace digital technology and to support employee reskilling and redeployment. Evidence collected by CIPD: Learning and…
Mentoring is particularly important for apprentices as they are often young people entering the workplace for the first time it is an effective way of helping them to progress in their careers and helps them acclimatise to the workplace and gives them valuable support. Mentoring also improves communication between the employer and the apprentice, often…
As employers we play a central role when it comes to improving young people’s access to the labour market, it is vital that organisations recruit young people if they are to build the skills they need for future success. Young people have been hit the hardest by the pandemic, not just with getting into work,…
This last year our world has been turned upside down and this has had an impact on skills and learning. CIPD research (Learning and Skills at Work Survey 2021) highlights the upheaval and rapid changes in learning and raises questions for the future about how we continue to reinvent and reimagine learning and skills for…
Why Mentoring? When it comes to seeing tangible results and ROI from developmental initiatives, mentoring has a lot going for it, mentoring provides the follow-up, accountability and bedding-in of newly acquired skills and knowledge. Mentoring can be used in supporting other development initiatives in the organisation such as graduate programmes, talent management initiatives, succession planning;…
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