Mentoring Program Design and Implementation * What is mentoring? * Why a formal program? * How do mentoring programs help? * What are keys to program success? * What training do participants need? * What are the first steps to a mentoring program? * Mentoring clients * Where can I learn more? An alternative to formal programs Participatory Training Design and Delivery * What is your approach to training? * Sample workshops * Facilitator training * Support staff and their teams * Everybody needs mentoring Audio Clips Everybody needs a mentor (30 secs.) AIFF Format Please note that this file may take some time to download. For help listening to the audio, please click here. About my work Mary Dingee Fillmore, Director Clients Projects	Everybody Needs Mentoring A Half-Day Training for All Employees Background In organizations where formal mentoring programs are not appropriate, it is especially important that people be encouraged both to recognize and share their own expertise, and to identify their own needs for mentoring and seek appropriate help. This workshop is designed to familiarize employees at all levels with the basic concepts of mentoring, and persuade them that they can both offer and benefit from it, and show them how to take the first steps.   Objectives The objectives are to enable the participants to: reach out effectively to others in many job situations recognize when you need mentoring yourself find the right help at the right level.   Format and Methodology This three hour session for up to 20 employees per session is conducted in a highly participatory style with varied methodology, ranging from large and small group discussions to pair exercises and mini-lectures.   Content The content of the workshop is tailored in accordance with the organizational structure, culture, and opportunities to mentor informally. Overall, however, the content includes: The impact of mentoring What a mentor is and offers Myths and realities about mentoring What each of us has to offer as a mentor Everyday mentoring opportunities How to approach someone as a mentor Key mentoring skills: coaching and counseling What you are seeking as a potential mentee Your existing mentoring mosaic Reaching beyond the people you already know How to approach someone for mentoring   The Consultant Mary Dingee Fillmore has more than twenty-five years' experience in working with people and organizations. As Federal Women's Program Manager at EPA, she worked to introduce the concept of mentoring there in the late seventies. She helped the Department of Labor create its pilot mentoring program in 1986, and has helped to set up similar programs at over fifteen other organizations, including the Forest Products Laboratory (USDA), Beltsville Agricultural Research Service (USDA), and the Environmental Protection Agency Region VII. The author of Women MBAs: A Foot in the Door (G.K. Hall & Co., 1987), Ms. Fillmore has consulted in Europe and England as well as in the U.S.
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