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This module addresses important issues and developments in the practice of mentoring. This includes roles, responsibilities, skills and strategies to meet growing requirements for both personal and professional development in the workplace. It places particular emphasis on the role of mentoring in supporting the development of (more) effective relationships at work.

Increasing emphasis is being placed on the importance of mentoring in workplace, community and voluntary settings. It has become a contemporary human resource tool to help and support individuals to develop themselves and their competencies to perform more effectively in a range of contexts The purpose of mentoring is to help and support people to manage their own learning in order to maximise individual potential, skills, performance and personal development in others. This module will enable students to develop and apply the knowledge, skills, attributes and attitudes necessary for effective mentoring  to their personal and professional development. It will introduce a range of skills, attributes and techniques to enhance more effective working relationships and provide first- hand experience of mentoring practice by providing cross-level peer support to students preparing to work in a range of contexts including workplace, volunteering and community settings.

1. critically review models of mentoring
2. apply theoretical perspectives to mentoring practice;
3. critically understand the dynamics and power relations of the relationship between mentor and mentee
4. critically understand the social and organisational context of mentoring including the concept of the learning organisation;

The Library Catalogue contains full details of the current reading list for this module. Further details may also be found in the Module Guide.