Resources for Mentors

An impactful, successful and rewarding mentoring relationship requires planning, rapport building, expectation setting, and the development of active listening, questioning, reflection, the giving and receiving of feedback, and confidence.

Resources for mentors

The following resources provides advice on establishing and maintaining the best possible mentoring relationship you can and covers:

• The role of a mentor
• Starting the relationship and building rapport
• Setting clear expectations
• The importance and power of listening and amplifying the mentees voice
• Deep questioning and keeping the conversation flowing
• Giving and receiving feedback
• Closing the mentoring relationship

Mentoring MS Teams Channel and SharePoint Resources

The University Wide Mentoring MS Teams channel offers a space to share resources and discuss experiences with other mentors. The channel also hosts a bank of tools and resources for mentors, and recordings of previous mentor development sessions. The channel is available to all mentors, and you do not need to be part of the University-wide Mentoring Scheme to join the discussions.

We have designed a number of tools that can assist during mentoring discussions and you can access these mentoring resources on SharePoint. These cover career action planning, identifying leadership qualities, values, reflections, unhelpful thinking habits and the Wheel of Life.

Additional resource links:

• Choosing, recruiting and working with a mentor(Opens in Adobe Spark)
• Build the skills to mentor and sponsor employees (Opens in LinkedIn Learning)
• Different types of mentoring relationships(OD&PL Website)
• Mentoring challenges and how to address them (Opens in SWAY)
• Mentor Scheme Topics (Opens in Sway)
• Mentoring FAQs (OD&PL Website)
• The EPSRC Inclusion Matters website also has numerous resources around inclusivity, including the online mentoring course

Preparing for Mentorship Online Module

This module is for anyone who is new to mentoring and wants to know the basics of what the roles of mentor and mentee entail and how to set yourself up for a successful mentoring partnership. The module will familiarise you with what mentoring is, and isn’t, what makes a good mentor and mentee, and some tools that can help you clarify the goals for mentoring and structure mentoring meetings. There are no prerequisites to this training module. The module is highly recommended for new mentees and mentors before you start your first mentoring partnership.

Access the Preparing for Mentorship Online Module

Access full transcript for module videos

Workshops for mentors

To further support your practice we run a number of facilitated sessions throughout the year for both mentees and mentors. You do not need to be registered in the University Wise Mentoring scheme to attend.

These sessions will be advertised on our  Mentoring Workshops and Events page and the OD&PL training and events page.