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Recording: Engaging Tomorrow’s Government Leaders Through Mentoring

Program Case Study: NSW Department of Planning and Environment Mentoring Program

Join Art of Mentoring’s Senior Program Designer, Gina Meibusch as she takes a closer look into the NSW Department of Planning and Environment’s Mentoring Program. Michael Rolik is the Sponsor of the programs and is also an active mentor; Michael and Gina will discuss the ways that mentoring is a key contributor to the department’s people and culture strategy, including the Women in Senior Leadership (WiSL) program that supports emerging female leaders. Past WiSL Program participants Kerrie Gregory (Mentee) and Briony Foster (her Mentor) join Gina to share their experiences with the program and how it shaped their careers.

When Kerrie Gregory applied to the 2020 Women in Senior Leadership Mentoring Program (NSW Dept of Planning and Environment), she hoped to progress some long held goals and gain focus that she’d not been able to achieve in previous mentoring relationships. Kerrie had no idea how significant an impact her relationship with her mentor Briony Foster would have, giving her an opportunity to grow in ways that she had not anticipated.

Briony experienced her own gains as well, and has continued to mentor in the program in the years since. Briony is strong advocate for mentoring as a unique and powerful process for drawing out the best in emerging government leaders, and we look forward to hearing from Kerrie and Briony about their journey together in the formal mentoring program, and about what has happened since.

In this webinar you will learn:
– How to identify emerging government leaders who will thrive on being mentored
– What a successful public service mentoring relationship looks like
– Ways to support a government mentoring partnership, to get the most for the mentee and the mentor
– The longer-term benefits for senior and emerging government leaders of mentoring and being mentored

Presented by:
Gina Meibusch, Senior Program Designer, Art of Mentoring

Guests:

Program Sponsor: Michael Rolik (Director of Inclusion and Talent Development, NSW Department of Planning and Environment)
Mentor: Briony Foster (Executive Director at Department of Communities and Justice)
Mentee: Kerrie Gregory (Manager Work Health and Safety at NSW Land and Housing Corporation)

 

The Mentor’s Guide Book Review

The Mentor’s Guide was always an exceptional book. In this third edition, just released, Lois Zachary has been joined by her talented and dynamic daughter, Lisa Fain, CEO of Center for Mentoring Excellence. The book reflects a modern model of mentoring, grounded in adult learning theory, as a self-directed multidimensional relationship of mutual exchange.

The new edition includes essential updates and expanded discussion around virtual mentoring and inclusive mentoring, covering gender, sexual orientation, race, power, culture and generational differences.

Packed with exercises and tips, as well as interesting and real mentoring scenarios, this is an extremely well-written, easy-to-read book.

The first part introduces the reader to the meaning and context of mentoring, setting the scene for the second part, which is a guide to how to navigate the mentor role through the typical phases of a mentoring relationship. It invites the reader to go on a journey of self-reflection, itself an exercise which is critical for masterful mentoring. Prepare to be confronted by some of these exercises, including a self-awareness reflection exploring underlying biases and stereotypes.

I am not a great supporter of the SMART goals model for mentoring, especially at the beginning of a mentoring relationship.  This is because mentoring goals can take time to emerge and creating specific goals too early can bypass some essential exploration between mentor and mentee. However, for the those that do use the SMART model, I love the idea of the SMARTER goals framework – which adds Exciting and Risky to the acronym. I agree that challenging goals for mentees should have a slightly risky edge that puts them just slightly out of their comfort zone where the greatest learning can occur. When a goal has an air of excitement, it is also much easier for a mentee to muster energy and enthusiasm to do the work required for goal achievement. This is a useful and important addition to the model and a welcome inclusion in the book.

If there is one book I would recommend to first-time mentors, this would be it. The Mentor’s Guide is definitely the most comprehensive and up-to-date manual for mentoring mastery available today.

© Melissa Richardson 2022

Author: Lois J. Zachary
Author: Lisa Z. Fain
Center for Mentoring Excellence
in Partnership with Art of Mentoring

Webinar: 2022 Art of Mentoring International Mentor and Mentee of the Year

Overview

Again in 2022 we invited thousands of mentors and mentees to nominate their partners for the prestigious Art of Mentoring Mentor and Mentee of the Year Awards.

Please join us when we recognise and celebrate the exceptional support provided by mentors and the difference they make to the lives of their mentees. We’ll acknowledge and commend mentees whose mentors saw them grab the opportunity with both hands and make the most of the generous support.

In this webinar we will reveal:

  • The 2022 Winners and Finalists, and why they were chosen
  • The characteristics and behaviours that define outstanding mentors and mentees – what’s the common thread that makes them successful and stand out from the crowd?
  • Our tips for how you can become the mentor you always wanted, and a mentee that seizes a mentoring opportunity and turns it into gold.
  • This year’s trends in mentoring

Presented by:

Gina Meibusch, Senior Program Designer, Art of Mentoring
Donella Roberts, General Manager – Australia, Art of Mentoring

 

How to build bench strength, keep talent, foster mobility and build careers with mentoring

Overview

Most organisations struggle with succession planning. Building the bench strength of the leaders within your own organisation is hard when most people are thinking it’s probably easier to be promoted outside of the organisation. If someone is considering a career path change or they are looking for a promotion, why not make that possible within the organisation?

Tools such as HRIS, LXP, Talent Management and other systems are all attempting to make internal mobility and career succession more effective by mapping pathways and providing content for building capacity towards that succession. However, at the core of what is truly needed for building value for the employee is the human connections that have them feel a sense of belonging and help them visualise themselves in a role elsewhere in your organisation (upward or sideways).

The most affected cohort of people at the whim of this conundrum is mid-level management. Often development opportunities are available to new entrants/graduates and to leadership, but there is a lack of career development opportunities or promotions available for mid-level managers to see themselves long term at the organisation.

In this webcast we will discuss the roles that mentoring plays in the workplace to enable succession and internal mobility. How implementing a program can boost engagement of employees or help to manage change. From cross-silo communication to internal mobility, knowledge transfer to building leadership capacity, these are all topics we’ll cover as outcomes from a well-run mentoring program.

In this webcast Gina will explore:

  • Why mentoring for internal mobility and succession is important right now
  • Examples of mentoring programs that achieve these objective
  • The critical elements in delivering successful mentoring programs to boost employee engagement and manage change
  • The barriers of establishing a mentoring program and how to overcome them.
  • Understanding ROI in mentoring and how this aligns with organisational objectives

Presented by:
Gina Meibusch, Senior Program Designer, Art of Mentoring

Recording: Mentoring Programs for Culture Shifts and Embracing Diversity

Overview

Today’s organisations must be able to capitalise on diversity – tapping into a multi-cultural workforce, managing the demands of an increasingly well-educated and experienced cadre of female managers and facilitating virtual teams and alliances in a global workplace.

Never has there been a more crucial time for business leaders to get serious about diversity, equity, and inclusion.

No longer will implicit bias training suffice. Your people expect meaningful engagement and conversation on critical D,E & I issues with others provides individuals, and their respective organisations value well beyond anything that can be ‘trained’.

Welcome – the emergence of mentoring in this space. Programs such as reverse mentoring, reciprocal mentoring, group mentoring and traditional mentoring are great tools to help address DE&I goals and make real cultural/systemic changes within the organisation.

For example, increasing experience with reciprocal mentoring shows that it provides a safe space, where both parties can confront their own perceptions, beliefs and behaviours. The quality of the connection between the top and bottom of the organisation exposes institutional barriers and enables a greater level of collaboration in bringing about meaningful change.

The anecdotal evidence of reverse mentoring is compelling. Where a program has been well-designed and supported (two essential criteria), both sets of participants point to it as one of the most significant learning interventions of their careers. It provides a platform for challenging the prevailing culture and the systems that underpin it; and for replacing limiting beliefs and operational roadblocks.

Join Gina, Senior Program Designer Art of Mentoring, as she provides insights on programs that have made a tangible difference to organisational culture. By facilitating cross-group understanding and supporting disadvantaged or minority groups within an organisation, mentoring is emerging as a powerful method for encouraging organisational diversity.

In this webcast Gina will explore:
·     Why mentoring for culture shifts and embracing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is important right now
·     Examples of mentoring programs that target different groups
·     The critical elements in delivering successful mentoring programs to support culture shifts and DE&I goals.
·     The barriers of establishing a mentoring program and how to overcome them.
·     Understanding ROI in mentoring and how this aligns with DE&I objectives

Presented by:
Gina Meibusch, Senior Program Designer, Art of Mentoring

 

Webinar: Mentorship Programs for Associations

 

Mentorship Programs for Associations – Building a Highly Successful Program to Engage and Retain Your Members

Overview
Associations are increasingly aware of the potential value of association-led mentorship programs. Current members find a reason to stay, young industry entrants a reason to join, and leadership capabilities are cultivated within the association itself and the industry as a whole. Industry or association goals such as creating highly engaged members or perceived value for the cost of yearly membership are made easier to achieve. Mid-late career members are also brought back into activity within the membership by participating mentors.

There is resounding agreement that mentorship programs add value. Running a program that fails is brand damaging, but running a successful mentoring program can garner results that no other program in the membership service can. Too many associations are eyeing the benefits of mentoring but telling themselves they can’t afford it or don’t know how to implement one. In this webinar, we will unpack how to implement a highly effective program that achieves results such as 90% satisfaction rates, 46% of mentees saying it’s one of the best things they’ve done in their careers and 100% of participants saying they would participate again and/or recommend to others. What’s more, we will show you how to do so with a limited budget.

Join Alex Richardson, CEO and Founder of Art of Mentoring as he explains the ways his team help associations and member-based organizations to achieve their goals and enrich the value of their membership. Drawing on existing case studies and examples, Alex will take a look into how other associations have achieved remarkable success using strategic mentoring, and what sets them apart from other types of mentorship programs.

Presented By
Alex Richardson, CEO, Art of Mentoring

 

Media Release: International Mentor and Mentee of the Year 2022

2022 saw thousands of Mentors and Mentees invited to nominate their mentoring partners for the prestigious Art of Mentoring International Mentor and Mentee of the Year Awards.

The applications were exceptional, and judging wasn’t easy, which is a sign of the quality of the programs and the commitment of the participants and sponsoring organisations.

 

2022 International Mentor of the Year

This year the award went to mentor Hema Patel,  who was able to bring very concrete experiences of her own into conversations with her mentee, Danielle Frisby, and allow Danielle a space to ask questions, check her assumptions and consider options. She introduced her mentee to a new network of contacts and a perspective on career development that Danielle feels will help her to continue to grow long after the formal program has completed.

 

2022 Mentor of the Year Winner:
Hema Patel, CA ANZ Mentor Exchange Program

Nominated by Danielle Frisby

“Hema has opened my eyes to new stages of opportunity and strength and I will be forever grateful for her guidance, wisdom and kindness. She was enthusiastic about helping me achieve my goals and provided valuable and honest feedback at all times. She was a safe space for me – I really hit the jackpot.”

 

2022 International Mentee of the Year

This year we awarded mentee, Karen Evans, mentee of the year because she made it very clear upfront to her Mentor, Marianne Di Giallonardo, that she was going to wring every drop out of their mentoring relationship, and she lived up to her word! Marianne described Karen’s organisation, preparedness and flexibility in the way she managed the mentoring process and took responsibility for her own learning. She owned it and achieved real outcomes in her current role and her journey to senior leadership.

 

2022 Mentee of the Year Winner:
Karen Evans, AHRI Mentoring Program

Nominated by Marianne Di Giallonardo

 

“Karen is/has been a delight to work with – from a very shy ‘not sure this is the best thing for me as I’ve never done it before’ to one of the most accomplished mentees I’ve worked with over the past 30 years. She is really kicking goals now and making a huge difference in the organisational development space for her organisation which is extremely resource constrained with many challenges ahead.”

 

Art of Mentoring recognises outstanding mentors and mentees across programs in organisations and associations, and awarded 25 Highly Commended Awards to outstanding mentors and mentees in the following programs in 2022.

Mentor Highly Commended Programs:

  • CA ANZ Mentor Exchange & Non Profit Board Experience Programs
  • AHRI Mentoring Program
  • CPA Australia ANZ Mentoring Program
  • Women Building Australia National Mentoring Program
  • AIPM Mentoring Program
  • APA Graduate Mentoring Program
  • Toyota Mentoring program
  • WIMnet NSW Mentoring Program

Mentee Highly Commended Programs:

  • CPA Australia ANZ Mentoring Program
  • AHRI Mentoring Program
  • AIPM Mentoring Program
  • CA ANZ Mentor Exchange Program
  • Women Building Australia National Mentoring Program
  • APA Graduate Mentoring Program
  • Toyota Mentoring program

 

View our winners announcement webinar

 

We would like to again acknowledge our winners for 2022, congratulations to Hema and Karen, what an incredible achievement.

 

© Gina Meibusch 2022

 

Webinar: Supporting Healthcare Workers Through Post Pandemic Change

Overview

There’s no question, the healthcare industry is enduring a difficult time as it reorganises itself post the height of the pandemic. The demand far exceeds the resources available. Burnout levels are at an unprecedented high, and frankly many skilled workers – experts in their respective field in fact – are considering leaving the industry.

Long hours, limited resources, and regulated environments offering limited support, can make for unpleasant workplaces. Skilled talent are exiting the industry and young, emerging talent are questioning whether to join the medical, nursing and allied health professions. Healthcare is facing battles to attract, retain, engage, develop, and satisfy its workforce.

Formal training in healthcare doesn’t typically arm workers with the non-technical skills required for leadership. Mentoring can provide the safety net for mentees and mentors to express views, concerns and challenges about their day-to-day work, explore goals and aspirations for the future, or provide support and compassion with a first-hand understanding and knowledge of the workplace environment or industry more broadly.

The mentor is there to help the mentee develop long-term competency and capacity. The benefits and outcomes for mentees, mentors, organisational culture and performance are manifold, and the future of this crucial industry and the population for which it cares, depends on it.

In this webinar, Alex Richardson, CEO of Art of Mentoring will explore current issues impacting the healthcare sector and how mentoring can support both individuals and the industry. Cathy Cribben-Pearse, Founder & CEO, OakTree Mentoring will also join Alex to discuss the impacts of the global pandemic on nursing and outcomes and benefits mentoring has provided.

In this webinar you will learn:

  • Why mentoring is important in healthcare
  • What are the benefits for the mentor and mentee specifically?
  • How the healthcare organisation can benefit
  • How mentoring supports development and retention in the healthcare sector
  • The fundamental things to consider before starting a mentoring program

Presented by:

Alex Richardson, CEO and Founder, Art of Mentoring
Cathy Cribben-Pearse, Founder & CEO, Oaktree Mentoring

Recording: Mentoring in a Modern Context

Overview

There are some people that are seemingly gifted with natural mentoring abilities however there is an underlying ‘art of mentoring’ that is not an easily obtained capability and is likely a skill that the best mentors are aware that they are ever evolving and mastering.

In different contexts for example their style or approach must shift or adapt to the environment which the best mentors can identify as a relationship becomes further established, moving into new phases of the relationship.

In this webinar, Centre for Mentoring Excellence CEO and leadership expert Lisa Fain draws on mentoring examples from her new book, The Mentor’s Guide, co-authored with her mother, mentoring expert Dr. Lois Zachary.  Lisa is a global speaker, and an expert in the intersection of cultural competency and mentoring. Her passion for diversity and inclusion fuels her strong conviction, that leveraging differences creates a better workplace and drives better business results.

Presented in partnership with:

 

 

Presented by:
Melissa Richardson, Founder, Art of Mentoring Academy
Lisa Z. Fain, CEO, Center for Mentoring Excellence

 

Webinar: Making Virtual Mentoring Work

Presented By
Melissa Richardson, Founder, Art of Mentoring
Lisa Fain, CEO, Center for Mentoring Excellence

How can you succeed in virtual mentoring?
In the remote and hybrid world, creating connections and mentoring relationships is key to your own personal and professional development. But what does mentoring look like now? How can you develop and foster relationships virtually with a mentee/mentor?

Why is it important to invest in virtual mentoring?
Researchers proved years ago that virtual mentoring can be very effective, yet many people still insisted that mentoring must be done face to face. It took a global pandemic to create a giant experiment with virtual communications that convinced the greater majority. Remote work left people feeling isolated, so the smartest companies used virtual mentoring programs to help keep employees connected, engaged and feeling supported.

In this webinar you will learn:

  • How the researched evidence supports the effectiveness of virtual mentoring
  • To identify tips on how to create an optimal virtual experience
  • Demonstrate how to conduct a virtual mentoring conversation

 

This webinar is brought to you in partnership with the Art of Mentoring Academy,  Sidecar and The Center for Mentoring Excellence