Fife Multiagency Leading and Learning Programme:

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Fife Multiagency Leading and Learning Programme

• Mentoring Scheme

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What are Mentors there to do?

• Facilitate effective learning relationships
• Be students of their own experience, use
  reflection to inform what it is they do and how
  they do it
• Make sure you dont get too comfortable and fall
  asleep and miss your life (challenge, support and
  vision)
• Help you set learning goals and priorities
• Assist your personal and career development,
  inspire you to reach beyond yourself

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Mentoring Scheme overview

• Mentors come from Fife Council, NHS Fife and our
  partners.
• You will be matched with a Mentor from a
  different organisation to yourself.
• A half day training event will be held on 23rd
  February when Mentors and Mentees will meet
• Your Mentor has been briefed to undertake the
  role for 9 months. Thereafter by mutual
  agreement.

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Previous Scheme Evaluation

• 1-1 contact and guidance is very useful. Mentor
  is opposite of me and therefore helps me to think
  more
• Helps with strategic development and gives me
  other choices when dealing with situations
• Opportunity to discuss and compare management
  styles, strengths and development areas being
  valuable
• Not well matched! Limited challenge (no
  direction)

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Mentorship schemes

• Competency-based matching
• The gold standard
• BUT
• Expensive external consultant expertise
• Ideally needs a big pool of mentors so matching
  is most effective

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Dating agency

• A valid form of scheme
• Basic, relevant information collected on both
  Mentors and Mentees
• Forms posted on intranet / mailing list
• Mentees approach potential Mentors directly
• Mentors can accept or reject with reasons given
  to Mentees

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The Middle Way

• Mentors complete questionnaire identifying key
  strengths and skills
• Mentees complete questionnaire picking up on key
  areas from their profiling
• Programme Managers act as matchmakers, adding in
  contextual and organisational knowledge

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How it works in practice

• Its over to you and your Mentor to arrange
  meetings, venue, frequency, mentoring agreement.
  If you cant get started let us know!
• Good mentoring is tough for both parties
• If its not working, be honest, explore, reflect
  and bring to a close. Let us know!
• If its working well, youll know!