SARTOR 2 or SARTOR 3

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The IEE Mentoring Service Presents to IEE
Berkshire Branch Helping others to help
themselves - a workshop for the
Future. by Tony Johns Mentoring Consultant to
IEE
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The IEE Mentoring Services

• objective is to enable IEE members of all
• grades to fully realise their potential.

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• helps members cope with changes
• in Society,
• in the employment scene generally,
• in large companies,
• in small and medium sized companies,
• and in self employment.

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• Case Studies
• Odysseus
• Michael Faraday
• Bill Gates
• Richard Branson
• and ?

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• Workshop Exercise No. 1

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• complements the INFORMAL networks of family,
  friends and neighbours,
• school and college teachers, tutors and fellow
  students,
• work colleagues and managers
• by activating the network of fellow
• professionals within the IEE.

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• aims to maximise informality
• recognises Mentors and Mentees as professionals
• provides guidelines but no contract.
• minimises formality
• with few forms procedures.

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• recognises that
• the Skills required for mentoring come naturally
  to most people,
• but
• like all skills, they can be honed and improved
  with training and practice.

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• stresses that Mentoring requires questioning and
  active listening skills,
• with trust, confidence and respect,
• to help, guide and encourage,
• and is NOT about counselling, advising, coaching,
  training, teaching, or therapy.

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• I keep six honest serving men
• (They taught me all I knew)
• Their names are What and Why and When
• And How and Where and Who.
• From The Elephants Child
• by Rudyard Kipling

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• Workshop Exercise Nos. 2 and 3
• 1-to-1 Mentoring

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• 1-to-1 Exercises
• Mentors need to help mentees to realise their own
  achievements and potential
• These exercises were designed to give you
  practice in doing just that.
• As well as enabling you to practice your
  questioning and listening skills.

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• Workshop Exercise No. 4
• Syndicate Work
• What we need now is a definition of what a
  Mentor does.
• Please complete the following statement, A
  mentor

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• A mentor provides HELP and GUIDANCE to enable a
  mentee to recognise their own development
  POTENTIAL.
• A mentor also provides ENCOURAGEMENT to realise
  that potential
• PRAISE and CELEBRATION when progress is made
• and then the CHALLENGE to do more.

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• Publicise via IEE News, IEE Website, IEE Branch
  Coordinators and events
• Volunteers register as Mentors or Mentees, or
  both
• Training via CD /or Workshops
• Matching mainly on geographic basis
• Feedback on progress and outcomes.

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• For the future?
• Ensure each Branch has a Mentoring Coordinator,
• Encourage Networking,
• Discussion Groups on IEE Website,
• Expand to IEE members overseas,
• And ?

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• Workshop Exercise No. 5
• Networking can be a source of mentors, but how
  can networking be of use in mentoring?

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• Use Your Network
• Its not only what you know that matters,
• but who you know and who knows you
• and if you dont know them,
• introduce yourself!