UIS Learning and Development: Mentoring in Practice (Unit 3)

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UIS facilitates a mentoring scheme exclusively for the University's IT community and UIS' internal staff.

Mentoring can be a handy tool in supporting colleagues to develop their professional lives and careers, in both roles as a mentor and mentee.

This is a welcome event (Unit 3) and part of the UIS' Mentoring learning journey, for all mentees and mentors enrolled in the 2024-25 programme. This interactive workshop is designed to give an overview and introduction to mentoring, practice some essential skills needed for mentors and mentees, mistakes to avoid, and become familiar with some simple models and tools to support the mentoring partnership and maximise its value and impact.

UIS and IT staff enrolled in the Mentoring Scheme 2023-24.

Mentors and mentees need to complete Unit 1 and Unit 2 self-taught exercises before attending Unit 3 (Mentoring in practice)

Number of sessions: 1

At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• enable participants to achieve a common understanding of the role of the mentor and mentee
• raise awareness of mentoring skills and behaviours and to practice how to carry out the role effectively
• develop participants' confidence so that they feel able and equipped to take on the role of mentor and mentee
• understand how mentoring will work within the organisation and what support is available to mentors and mentees

Interactive workshop

If you have any queries about the workshop or pre-work, please contact Rinku Raina at: rr541@cam.ac.uk

2 hour

Usually an annual welcome event. Subsequent informal sessions will be advertised throughout the 9-month scheme.