Shipboard Training in 1999 Is it Effective From the Chairman of Videotel Marine International Len Ho

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The Role of Mentors in Career Development by
Leonard Holder, Extra Master, MPhil, FRIN,
FNI. Warden and Past Master, The Honourable
Company of Master Mariners, London
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• This presentation will look briefly at
• Mentoring during sea training
• Good and bad practice
• Is possible to teach mentoring?
• The Nautical Institutes approach
• The Honourable Companys Apprenticeship Scheme
• A formal (modular) MSc programme

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• Mariners gain their knowledge and skills in many
  different ways.
• Their career achievements depend upon many
  things
• Their basic education
• Their own motivation and enthusiasm
• The quality of their maritime education
• The quality of their sea training
• The attitude and skills of senior staff as
  mentors

.of all these, number 5 is probably the most
important
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History of Maritime Training The importance of
mentoring
Traditional Maritime Training (Particularly in
Greece)
passing on their knowledge to younger ones
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Do you remember the senior officers who trained
you ?

• not interested in training, and unfriendly
• not interested in training, and friendly
• who gave little or no guidance,
• .. and then shouted when things went wrong
• who ignored you

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Do you remember the senior officers who trained
you ?

• .and those who took an interest

and gave encouragement and guidance, let you try
things out for yourself, congratulated you when
you got things right, and encouraged and advised
you on how to do better next time if things went
a bit wrong
NOTE THIS IS THE IMPORTANT PART Sea training
would be much better if we could encourage all
senior staff to become better mentors.
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Can you teach Mentoring?
Verdict from Julian Parker ..you had better go
and do a course on mentoring and then complete
the chapter
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• Mentoring
• Identify the gaps in the trainees knowledge.
• Choose a suitable project or procedure.
• Brief the trainee well beforehand.
• Carrying out the project or procedure.
• Appraisal or de-briefing.
• What next?

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The City of London around the year 1350 AD was
full of rogues and swindlers who took peoples
money for poor services and shoddy products. The
City fathers decided to start craft guilds to
ensure that all craftsmen were properly trained
as apprentices and mentored as journeymen, and
that the services and goods were supplied only by
skilled craftsmen.
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An introduction to The Honourable Company of
Master Mariners
Founded in 1926 to encourage and maintain a
high and honourable standard of ability and
professional conduct in the officers of the
British Merchant Navy.
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CAREERS Command at sea PLUS
1. Bunkers, chemical suppliers, brokers,
salesmen. 2. Fishing and fishery protection 3.
Freight forwarders, Non-Vessel Owning Common
Carriers (NVOCCs) 4. Hydrographic
surveying 5. Marine environmental protection
and pollution prevention 6. Marine equipment and
associated training 7. Marine insurance 8.
Marine safety and Search and Rescue
operations 9. Marine surveying 10. Maritime
administration 11. Maritime business and
finance 12. Maritime shippers, receivers,
charterers, tracers, logistics 13. Maritime
education and training 14. Maritime federations
and/or associations
15. Maritime law and arbitration 16. Maritime
media and communications 17. Maritime research
and consultancy 18. Maritime sports and leisure
industries 19. Meteorology and ship routing 20.
Naval equipment and training 21. Oceanography and
ocean resource management 22. Off-shore
operations 23. Pilotage 24. Port design and
other maritime civil engineering 25. Port
management, port services and operation
of maritime terminals 26.
Salvage 27. Security services, customs and
coastguard
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28. Ship agents, ship brokers (freight, sale and
purchase) 29. Ship chandlers and/or suppliers 30.
Shipping accountants, C.P.A. and auditors. 31.
Shipping informatics 32. Ship design and
ship building 33. Shore-based management of
ship operations and maritime transport 34.
Shore-based marine engineering (design and
repair) 35. Tugs, barges, construction and supply
boats (construction, maintenance and repairs),
operators, brokers (freight, sale and
purchase) 36. Vessel Traffic Services
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Apprenticeship and Junior Associate Scheme
Supporting young people who have joined, or are
about to join, the nautical profession
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The M.Sc. Course
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• Questions and suggestions are welcome on any
  aspect of mentoring
• As part of sea training
• Through the HCMM Apprenticeship Scheme
• Through the HCMM MSc in Maritime Operations and
  Management
• The Nautical Institutes approach
• As part of other training programmes

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