Build A Mentoring Culture

Key Objective: Equip participants with a deep understanding of what mentoring means and how it can transform both individual careers and organizational culture. It aims to help attendees develop the essential skills of effective mentors-such as active listening, constructive feedback, goal-setting, and powerful questioning-while also learning how to build trust, set clear expectations, and maintain strong, meaningful relationship.

Target Audience: Aspiring mentors, mentees, team leaders, and managers.

Key Topics:

Mentoring Fundamentals

• What mentoring is-and what it isn’t (mentoring vs. coaching vs. sponsoring vs. managing)
• Benefits for mentees, mentors, and organizations
• Types of mentoring (traditional, reverse, peer, group)

Roles & Responsibilities

• Defining expectations of mentors, mentees, and program coordinators
• Understanding accountability and boundaries

Building Effective Mentoring Relationships

• Establishing trust and rapport
• Setting clear expectations and agreements
• Managing dynamics (power imbalances, generational differences)

Core Mentoring Skills

• Active listening
• Constructive feedback using the R.C.C.E. model
• Goal-setting & the GROW model
• Powerful questioning techniques

Inclusive Mentoring

• Addressing unconscious bias
• Mentoring across cultural and generational differences
• Creating safe spaces for diverse voices

Overcoming Challenges

• Common obstacles: disengagement, mismatched pairs, time constraints
• Strategies for re-engaging or respectfully ending a relationship

Sustaining a Mentoring Culture

• Embedding mentoring in the organization (onboarding, leadership expectations, informal mentoring opportunities)
• Securing leadership buy-in and tracking program success

Personal Action Planning

• Creating a personal mentoring action plan (as mentor or mentee)
• Sharing commitments and key takeaways

Key Benefits:

• Gain a clear understanding of mentoring fundamentals – learn what mentoring is, how it differs from coaching or managing, and why it is essential for professional growth.
• Develop key mentoring skills – practice active listening, constructive feedback, goal-setting, and powerful questioning techniques to strengthen your mentoring approach.
• Learn how to build strong, trust-based mentoring relationships – discover strategies for setting clear expectations, creating psychological safety, and navigating power dynamics.
• Acquire tools to overcome common challenges – gain confidence in handling disengagement, mismatches, time constraints, and cultural differences in mentoring relationships.
• Understand how to foster a mentoring culture in your organization – explore ways to embed mentoring into daily practices, support inclusivity, and drive collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Optional Post-Workshop Deliverables

Mentoring Program Process

Duration: 8 hours