Mentoring Future Leaders
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<strong>Mentoring</strong> <strong>Future</strong> <strong>Leaders</strong><br />
© Learning Link International<strong> </strong><br />
April 2005<br />
Module 4: <strong> </strong><br />
<strong>Mentoring</strong> Skills<br />
Learning Outcomes<br />
By the end of the module you will:<br />
Be able to apply the following mentoring communication skills:<br />
• Active listening.<br />
• Giving feedback.<br />
• Giving and receiving information, guidelines and suggestions.<br />
• Asking questions.<br />
• Paraphrasing, testing and showing empathy and understanding.<br />
• Analysing, interpreting and exploring alternatives.<br />
• Advising and evaluating.<br />
• “Telling” and instructing<br />
• Summarising, reinforcing and reassuring.<br />
• Using silence effectively<br />
• Structuring and termination.<br />
Your mentoring skills will be consistent with the guidelines and principles:<br />
• Appropriate to the situation (time and place).<br />
• Relevant to the issues at hand.<br />
• Suitable to the needs of a mentee.<br />
• Conducive to an open climate of appropriate sharing, debating <strong> </strong><br />
and supporting.<br />
Try this for a challenge:<br />
• Adjust and apply your mentoring skills to cater for<br />
• Culturally diverse individuals.<br />
• So-called “difficult” individuals.<br />
• Create “Personal Reflective Space”<br />
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