‘One to one support has enormous potential for helping people
to reflect on their emerging self knowledge, enabling them to develop
new skills in a safe place, to move on ….to face up to and diffuse
their fears’.
Douglas, Charlotte (November 2001)’ Building Leadership Capacity
in Social Care’, SSI Leadership Development Initiative
Mentoring is now recognised as a key tool in the development of
managers and leaders. It involves building personal and professional
capacity through learning to reflect creatively in a one to one
relationship.
Mentoring is offered to individual managers:
• as a stand alone intervention
• or in addition to a learning programme
Mentoring is most effective through the voluntary participation
of the manager and with an agreement underpinning confidentiality
and ways of working.
As a result of mentoring, managers learn how to:
• develop confidence and critical capacity
• become more reflective, balanced and aware
• manage change and challenge
• increase job satisfaction and creativity
‘I have become more positive in my
attitude towards life and work - and am no longer so sensitive to
remarks / reactions from others’.
‘The keeping of a journal has been invaluable in …looking
back and returning later to my own reassessment of a situation and
considering another approach I may have taken – or asking WHY
I made a decision and what I felt’.
Quotes from participants attending mentoring programmes with
Trish Bartley
