Coaching and Mentoring Skills

Title	Coaching and Mentoring Skills
Date	Thursday 14^th June 2007
Times	9.00 to 5.00 pm (lunch will be provided)
Length	One day
How many places are available?	15
Outcomes	The aim of this workshop is to help participants to be more effective as a mentor or coach. It is aimed at two types of participants. First, those who wish to be a mentor under the Warwick Mentoring Scheme. Second, those staff with management responsibilities who want to use a coaching style of leadership. As a mentor or coach, you are trying to do two things - to raise an individual’s awareness and to help him or her to take responsibility for their actions. The two key skills you need are to listen well and to ask effective questions. This workshop will be very practical, giving you an opportunity to run a mentoring session with another participant and to be mentored. You need to bring along two issues that you are wrestling with at the moment and that you would like to explore. You will be asked to talk about one of these issues, in confidence, when you are being mentored. (You will explore the other issue without the need to speak to anyone else about it.)
Aimed at	Staff who are managers in academic and non academic departments. Staff who are interested in becoming a mentor under the Warwick Mentoring Scheme
Venue	Room CMR 1.2 University House
Lead by	Bob Thomson, Management Development Adviser, Centre for Academic and Professional Development
Contact for more booking information	Val Bentick, Administrator Centre for Academic and Professional Development V.Bentick@warwick.ac.uk X24698
Preparation	Please be prepared to bring along two issues that you are wrestling with at the moment and that you would like to explore.
How to request a place	Please discuss your training needs and your reasons for wishing to attend the session with your line manager. Both you and your manager are asked to complete our brief application form and return it to Val Bentick, at the Centre for Academic and Professional Development. We will contact you to let you know if you have a place.