Mentoring
Mentoring Topics
What is mentoring?
Mentoring is professional development. To remain at the top of your profession you need to learn continuously. We help you on a one-to-one basis to develop your own skills and competence to solve the safety and health challenges you face in your professional work.
Why come to us?
Our mentors each have over 30 years of experience in a wide range of safety and health competences and tasks. We are leaders in our fields, authors of key publications, which have advanced the field or are standard textbooks. We have long experience of teaching, training, supervising and examining at the leading universities and training organisations in the UK and on the continent.
What do we do?
We show you how to carry out the tasks; we comment critically, but constructively, on your attempts to carry them out; we give you feedback, so that you gain insight into your own performance and its strengths and weaknesses; we provide support until you feel competent to perform on your own at the level you are aiming for. Based on our knowledge and long experience, we help you hone your skills on a one-to-one basis.
We can start you on completely new tasks and build up your performance, or we can help you polish existing skills and take them to a higher level. You decide what your aim is and how long the mentoring should last. In this way you can combine the vital professional development that keeps your skills up to date with support in solving the challenges facing your employer.
How do we do it?
- You choose the area in which you are seeking development and support. The list on this page shows you the topics we are competent to mentor in and who is the lead mentor for each of them.
- If what you are looking for is not on the list, contact Mike Thomas to see if we could still help you, or can put you in touch with one of our associates who can.
- Contact the lead mentor for your topic by phone or e-mail for an initial free discussion/exchange to specify the competence you are looking for, your current level in it and the timescale for the mentoring. He will indicate which of our mentors has the right competence and the time available to take you on.
- He will arrange for himself or one of his colleagues to meet up with you to make a detailed plan for the mentoring process; what it will cover; how you will keep in contact (e-mail, telephone, personal visit); how he will monitor progress and give you feedback; over what period the mentoring will take place and when and how it will be evaluated.
- Based on this plan your one-to-one learning experience can begin.
Charges
Our charges only start at step 4. Charges are then based on the time agreed in the plan, plus any agreed travels costs. We will keep a record of the actual time used and will alert you to any significant discrepancies from the plan either way, which will be adjusted in the final evaluation.
