How to be a Brilliant Mentor

Gisele Szczyglak is the founder and the president of WLC Partners, a specialist coaching & mentoring consultancy based in Paris & London. She is passionate about developing and implementing strategies for harnessing and using collective intelligence within companies and organisations through mentoring & coaching programmes.  A fundamental part of this approach to give people practical tools, high qualitative feedback (to help them to develop their own talents), and an ability to think outside of the box.

Part 1: The what and why of mentoring
1.    What is mentoring?
2.    What is the difference between coaching, mentoring and sponsoring?
3.    How will mentoring benefit you and your team?
4.    Individual or group mentoring – what is best for your team?
 
Part 2: The how of mentoring
5.    What makes an effective mentor: success factors, attitudes and communication
6.    What’s your style? The essential mentor; the manager-mentor; the executive mentor; the all-inspiring mentor
7.    Factors influencing success or failure in the mentoring process
8.    The step-by-step individual mentoring programme
8.1    Matching the mentor and mentee
8.2    Training mentees for success
8.3    Establishing and maintaining a good mentoring relationship
8.4    Setting and monitoring effective mentoring objectives
8.5    Successful mentoring meetings
8.6    Giving efficient and effective feedback
8.7    Ending the programme
 
Part 3: Be a successful mentor and manager
9.    Being both a mentor and a manager: how to switch from one to the other
10.  Use mentoring to increase commitment and motivation in your team
11.  Improving your own leadership and interactive skills through mentoring
12.  Cross-mentoring and e-mentoring: exciting new ways of working