e-Mentoring
Overview/Description
Rapid changes in the way organizations look and do business have generated a new business tool: e-Mentoring. Here's an opportunity to examine the challenges and advantages of e-Mentoring and explore how to adapt communication skills to electronic media. Learn how to grow and manage e-Mentoring relationships by effectively selecting and matching e-Mentors and proteges, developing trust, using technology effectively, setting expectations, providing feedback, and addressing traditional mentoring challenges within an electronic environment.
Target
Audience
Managers, supervisors, team leaders, middle managers, entry-level employees
Expected
Duration
3.5 hours
Lesson
Objectives:
Why Update Mentoring Methods?
recognize the importance of using e-Mentoring to address current business trends.
identify tools of e-Mentoring.
identify benefits of e-Mentoring.
identify challenges of e-Mentoring.
identify strategies to overcome challenges of e-Mentoring.
determine when to use appropriate strategies to overcome specific e-Mentoring challenges in business scenarios.
Getting Started in e-Mentoring
recognize the importance of organizing an e-Mentoring program.
identify techniques that can help companies prepare for e-Mentoring.
match tools for e-Mentoring to the needs of the company and the participants.
analyze a scenario to determine whether the best strategies were used for establishing e-Mentoring.
Making e-Mentoring Work
recognize the value of building a successful companywide e-Mentoring program.
select methods managers and coordinators can use to make e-Mentoring a success.
select steps mentors and proteges should take to make e-Mentoring work.
apply strategies to maintain e-Mentoring relationships in given business scenarios.
Course Number: MGMT0256