Benefits of Mentoring
Mentoring benefits everyone involved - mentees, mentors and the organisations for which they work.
- Mentees are able to learn from someone who has travelled the path before them
- Mentors have an opportunity to invest themselves in someone who seeks what they can offer
- Councils can share and spread their acquired learning and know-how
Mentoring also helps the community by encouraging an environment where people motivate each other and work together to improve skills and knowledge
Benefits to Mentors
- Satisfaction in enhancing skills in helping someone else to grow
- Gain fresh perspectives through interaction
- Further develops leadership skills including providing feedback, communication and interpersonal skills
- Investing in the future of the Sector
- Expand professional development network
- Staying in touch with emerging issues relevant to less experienced Local Government Officers
- Opportunity to reflect on own practices
- Cement role as subject matter experts and leaders
Benefits to Council
- Create an environment that fosters personal and professional growth through the sharing of business information, skills, attitudes and behaviors
- Increased employee motivation and work satisfaction (for mentees and mentors)
- Enhanced people skills
- Leverage the emotional and intellectual capital of the sector
- Council seen to be actively investing in their employees
- Improved performance of staff
- Reduced recruitment cost due to improved employee retention
- An enriched learning culture
- Accelerate processes for the identification, development and retention of talent
Benefits to Mentees
- Provides a ‘personalised’ development opportunity to address individual learning needs
- Provides an opportunity to develop new skills and expertise
- Provides access to independent and objective perspectives
- Enhances confidence in dealing with challenges and issues
- Enhances networking opportunities
- Drives the mentee to set goals and to strive towards them
- Refines organisational awareness and insight
- Increases individual visibility and recognition in the organisation
- Helps to clarify and enhance career direction and advancement
- Provides support during times of change and transition
Benefits to the Local
Government Sector
- Greater communication across the sector
- Assists with attraction and retention of staff
- Sharing and leveraging strategic knowledge and skills through-out the sector
Program Intake & Training Dates
Series 1 (2012)
- Program Orientation Day - Wednesday 7th March 2012 (1/2 day)
- Mid-Program Review Workshop - Wednesday 6th June 2012 (9.30am to 1.00pm)
- Final Program Debrief Workshop - Tuesday 16th October 2012 (4.30pm)
Series 2 (2012)
- Program Orientation Day - Wednesday 8th August 2012 (1/2 day)
- Mid-Program Review Workshop - Wednesday 4th December 2012 (9.30am to 1.00pm)
- Final Program Debrief Workshop - Wednesday 13th March 2013 (4.30pm)
