Mentoring

Why choose mentoring?

Mentoring is a cost-effective, practical solution to professional development within an organisation or company. A mentoring culture helps to retain staff, develop new leaders, enhance individual career development and provides safety net which can reduce stress.

Oxford Youth Arts Partnership

"This has been a really valuable process for us as an organisation. We are confident that this will have a long term impact on our organisation, and the way we work with young people in the future".

Helen Le Brocq, Director, Oxford Youth Arts Partnership

How it works

Mentoring is a learning relationship, with the mentor providing advice, guidance and support to the mentee within the boundaries set by their initial framework agreement.

Our mentoring solution

At Oxford Brookes University Business School we provide a reliable framework which quickly and efficiently identifies the key issues and processes for your organisation.

These include:

  • Facilitating the selection of the initial group of mentors and mentees
  • Running a mentor training workshop
  • Running a mentee induction workshop
  • Assisting with initial internal marketing of the programme
  • Providing a template for an initial framework agreement
  • Helping with ongoing maintenance of productive mentoring relationships
  • Advising on the administration of the programme
  • Providing mentor supervision or other continuing professional development
  • Facilitating information seminars for interested mentees