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Course Outline

Understanding Mentoring & Its Importance

  • The role of mentors
  • The empowering mentor
  • Mentoring in the current landscape
  • Characteristics of effective mentoring
  • The significance of relationships in our lives
  • Mentors’ care extends beyond professional duties
  • Exceeding expectations in mentorship

Building a Mentoring Relationship

  • Phases of development
  • Getting started
  • Matching mentors with mentees
  • Clarifying mentee expectations
  • Fostering a partnership
  • Core guiding principles
  • Drafting a Mentor/Mentee Agreement
  • Reciprocal Mentoring / Reverse Mentoring

Sustaining a Mentoring Relationship

  • Embracing a mindset of change
  • Managing change effectively
  • Coping strategies
  • Mirroring techniques
  • Validation methods
  • Navigating grey areas
  • Progressive adaptation

Guiding the Mentoring Relationship

  • Essential mentoring tools
  • Adjusting context
  • Active listening
  • Identifying emotions
  • Listening for motivation
  • Constructive confrontation
  • Delivering high-impact information
  • Granting permission
  • Cultivating genuine curiosity

Refining & Transitioning the Mentoring Relationship

  • Refinement and transition strategies
  • Common pitfall one: offering criticism
  • Common pitfall two: dispensing advice
  • Common pitfall three: attempting to rescue
  • Transitioning the relationship

Understanding Decision Making

  • Characteristics of effective and ineffective decision-makers
  • Determining the necessary level of analysis
  • Key components of the decision-making process

Selecting Actions

  • Evaluating options with varying advantages and disadvantages
  • Conducting quantifiable comparisons between alternatives
  • Systematically comparing related options
  • Systematically comparing unrelated options

Analysing the Impact of Your Actions

  • Using metrics to weigh pros and cons
  • Performing force field analysis
  • Evaluating benefits against costs for different options
  • Systematically analysing cascading decisions
  • Visualising your decision-making process
  • Tools to enhance creativity and generate more options

Making Decisions in Groups

  • Implications of group decision-making
  • Reasons for frustration in group thinking
  • Strategies to improve meeting efficiency
  • Preventing dominant individuals from taking over the process
  • Encouraging shy or new participants to share views without fear
  • Tools to streamline group decision-making
  • Avoiding groupthink, where the desire for consensus leads to poor outcomes

Principles of Decision Making

  • Is it always necessary to secure a better bargain than others?
  • What are the philosophical implications of complexity in decision making?
  • Best practices for planning your course of action and key principles to consider
  • Insights from game theory applicable to decision making
 14 Hours

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