Mentoring
We define Mentoring as the passing on of knowledge by a more experienced, possibly older person, to a less experienced one, through enabling a better understanding, providing guidance and support but not direct advice.
The Urquhart Partnership have gained many years of experience within the field of mentoring and have worked on a one to one, group or organisation-wide basis. Mentoring can be provided on a stand-alone basis, to supplement a training course or workshop or form an intrinsic part of a larger scale training and development programme.
We can provide support to:
- Design and develop mentoring programmes
- Attract, select and recruit Mentors
- Deliver training to managers and employees to ensure a successful roll out of a mentoring programme
- Evaluate and report on the success of a programme
Some of the many Mentoring programmes we have managed or been involved with include:
- North West Development Agency - Business Mentoring programme with over 140 mentors / mentees pairs matched
- Department of Energy and Climate Change - UK / Norway Business Mentoring Programme with over 40 mentor / mentee pairs matched
- Business Mentoring Scotland - The Urquhart Partnership team have mentored more than 40 new start or growing businesses
- Learning Skills Council - Structured mentoring programme for 15 ethnic minority owned or managed businesses
- Scottish Enterprise Grampian - Enhance Management Development Programme where mentoring was offered as an integral part of the development programme to over 300 delegates
Benefits:
- Improved organisational performance
- Increased profitability / sales / return on investment
- Staff become more motivated and engaged
- Less absenteeism
- Better attraction & retention
- Increased flexibility / ability to cope with change
- More effective communication
- Enhanced working relationships
- More open and productive organisational culture
