Information on training content

Your mentor training will be divided into the following areas:

Topic: The Role of the Mentor

This topic focuses on requirements for your role as a mentor, specifically:

1. Introduction to mentees;
2. Understand how to enhance networks for building resilience;
3. Distinguish between the role of coach and mentor.

Topic: Self Care for Mentors: How to Protect your mental wellbeing

In this interactive session, mentors will learn about the importance of self-care and how to protect their mental wellbeing. Specifically, the session will cover:

1. Contemporary definitions and models of mental wellbeing;
2. Factors that influence the mental wellbeing of medical professionals;
3. The link between stress, self-care, mental wellbeing and performance;
4. A personal audit of existing self-care practices, and opportunities for extension;
5. Learning and practicing evidence-based strategies for strengthening mental wellbeing;
6. Developing a self-care Action Plan for the year ahead;
7. A brief word on burnout, depression, anxiety, suicide and help-seeking

Topic: Mentoring Tools and Traps

This topic focuses on developing knowledge of how mentoring optimises human performance, specifically and the importance of the context in which mentoring is being applied:

1. Establish relationship boundaries;
2. Develop active listening skills as a mentor;
3. Recognise conscious and unconscious bias, the risk of the ‘halo’ effect and focusing on being the best that you can be as a mentor.

Your mentee training will cover the following topics:

1. Common styles of mentoring relationships;
2. Boundaries and time appreciation;
3. Short term, medium term and long term goals;
4. Building trust and getting started.