Gave me confidence in my mentoring approach

Will improve my approach and structure for mentoring sessions. Helps provide a ‘reason’ to reflect/time

Will make me think about and plan performance meeting with my team better also applicable and chartership mentoring

Excellent course and extremely well delivered

Big impact. Consistency of how we deliver and explain mentoring. If done well we should be able to improve overall performance of Dstl

Help people develop

Will improve my overall approach to people management (mentoring and in a technical capacity – Professionalise the Lab’s approach to mentoring – improve consistency

Makes the interaction between the formal/informal mentoring much clearer. I like the principles and processes and can see who to employ them through the practicals

Trainer was Great – Thanks

Will improve my ability to encourage and support my mentees

Will help with improvements in the quality of mentoring

This will help staff understand the role of a mentor and what that involves

All the learning can be directly and quickly applied. Louise is an excellent trainer and the course flowed really well with plenty of discussion time

Course outlined numerous techniques which can be applied in different mentoring situations. Course handouts can be used to improve future mentoring sessions across the business

It will help me, and therefore my mentees, reset how sessions are conducted. It should lead to more productive outcomes supporting individuals and strategic outcomes

It will impact directly to provide better mentoring service. Indirectly through managing other people, leadership and communication

Definitely learnt lots today, even having been on 2 mentoring courses this year, (plus the advanced one yesterday)

It will make conversations more productive. I will be more self-aware, particularly of body language. I will employ more active listening skills

Allows better focus on left hand side of ‘Coaching’ / Mentoring

It has made me much more award of the ‘mentoring space’ and its various forms – right through to telling

Useful reminder of frameworks and introduction of new models with practical application

This will reinforce and extend my mentoring practice

Will help improve approach to mentoring. Refresh relationships with mentees. Promoted discussion on roles of fellows in mentoring (to be actioned more widely) and roles of gende...

This will help people determine what they can act upon when faced with an issue they wish to resolve. Help ‘Mentors’ recognise their role.

I’ll be using some of the techniques. I also want to set up a mentor community at Dstl