What is the purpose of mentoring?

Hover your cursor over the image below and click on the play button that appears to hear a brief introduction (approximately 50 seconds long) to mentoring. If you require a transcript of this video, one is available here.

The key principles of mentoring are to:

• Foster development
• Encourage
• Believe in the other person
• Create a space for learning
• Guide
• Increase awareness
• Identify alternatives
• Initiate action
• Focus on learning

Examine these principles of mentoring and coaching. They are an abridged version of the Curee Coaching and Mentoring Framework.

Now consider planning and discussing three strategies or actions with your mentoring colleagues that you might want to put in place to meet the framework.

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Are you aware of all the ways we communicate with you?

The Partners' intranet is a really good source of information for all mentors in the Warwick University Partnership.

We regularly send out CTE partnership bulletins. Archived versions are available here and you can also sign up to receive the latest versions when they are published here.

We also run bookable online clinics for one to one mentoring support.

Our mentor support videos are available here.