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Advanced Mentoring for Clinical Staff

Effective utilisation of mentoring is widely regarded as one of the most performance enhancing and individual supporting activities in the professional tool bag, whether assisting new team members, developing enhanced capabilities or resolving performance difficulties. Crucial to providing the best support to trainees of those newly in post, it is even more vital in supporting colleagues through challenges or difficulties. Our Advanced Mentoring programme is designed to provide a significantly enhanced ability in a wide variety of circumstances. Highly practical in nature, it utilises a robust framework but with advanced-level behavioural skills to match, all designed to take your mentoring ability to a whole new level. Packed with tools you can use straight out of the box.
Programme
THE CORE BASELINE
- The multiple roles of mentoring in healthcare
- Different types of mentoring for different purposes or needs
- Proactive versus reactive mentoring
- Setting expectations and contracting
- Defining the areas of focus
- Ensuring common understanding & expectations
- The impact of differing psychologies
- Ensuring a good psychological fit between mentee and mentor
- The mentoring contract
- Boundary setting in mentoring relationships
- Getting the first session right
- Planning closure from the start
MODEL FOR ADVANCED MENTORING
- The Grow Medical Advanced Mentoring Model
- Understanding the 6 Core Components
- Understanding the Gameplan Framework
- The preparation phase
- The application phase
- The separation phase
- Structuring mentoring sessions for maximum output
- The time between - personal contracting
- Effective questioning techniques to support insight growth
- Developing a repertoire of reflective questions
ADVANCED MENTORING COMMUNICATIONS & EMPATHY
- The impact of individual wiring on the mentoring relationship
- Stepping outside of your own limiting viewing lens
- Understanding issues from multiple dimensions
- Tailoring communication styles to individuals
- Active listening skills in mentoring
- Communicating areas of concern without escalation
- Understanding emotional impact
- Managing emotional hijack and adverse responses
- Techniques for developing insight in the presence of myopia
ADVANCED MENTORING IN MOTION
Mentoring for Learning
- Learning relationships in mentoring
- Getting the best from the learning relationship
- Balancing directive, reflective and didactic methods
- Fostering responsibility & self-reliance
- Nurture versus navigate
- The Gameplan Framework for Learning
Mentoring New Staff
- Core issues facing new staff
- Defining the core mentoring purpose
- Defining the areas of focus and their prioritisation
- The Gameplan Framework for new staff
- Creating the Gameplan
- Setting SMARTIE goals and milestones
- Using lead and lag indicators to assess progress
- The first 90 days and ensuring realistic goals
Mentoring New Consultants
- The new staff approach applied to consultants
- Unique challenges where mentoring plays a part
- What NOT to address through mentoring
- Suitable mentors for new consultants
- The Gameplan Framework for new consultants
- Differentiation between brand new versus new to this Trust
Mentoring Juniors
- Typical issues facing juniors
- The learning needs versus the newness needs
- The impact of insufficient time
- Overcoming typical challenges
- Ensuring maximum engagement from the outset
- The EGOR Mentoring Framework for juniors
- Career enhancement and acceleration
- Enhancing development and performance simultaneously
- The Gameplan Framework for juniors
Mentoring to Resolve Difficulties
- Mentoring in poor performance scenarios
- When personal difficulties are present
- Resolving matters arising in revalidation
- Ensuring focus, drive and application
- Critical approaches to goal setting and standards
- The importance and application of a review cycle
- Ensuring a positive relationship regardless of difficulties
- Supporting the human being effectively
- When difficulties persist despite mentoring
Course Dates
- ~ - 30th, Jun 2030
Pricing
- Standard Price: £0.00
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More Information & Compelling Reasons
Why Academyst?
Healthcare is tough today and the training you receive must adequately address that reality. No idealism or wishy-washy, overly academic regurgitation, just focused, bang up-to-date, hard-hitting, highly practical courses designed to address the things you need to be very good at today. Equally, your study leave time and budget are both scarce and precious. We won’t waste your time, we work hard to provide the very best training at professionally sustainable fees (lower than many) and we NEVER compromise on learning quality. Other practical reasons include:
- 100% Money-back Guarantee
- Just 12 Participants Per Course (Academyst Select)
- Extremely experienced faculty with seniority & genuine gravitas
- Many courses are augmented by significant additional e-learning for depth
- Academyst Select Courses
Academyst Select is a truly comprehensive approach to supporting you from both the learning perspective and in how you use or implement that learning. By operating with reduced participants and days i.e. only working with comparatively few individuals, we are able to provide an unmatched and truly enabling level of support.
Academyst Select courses have as standard:
- Open dialogue with the team and more targeted advice on your specific issues
- Access to ongoing implementation advice
- Full-sized PDFs of all slides used
- Implementation Guide to help you apply principles and learning
- Implementation Materials – actual documents, slides & models that you can use