iMp - Mentor Training

The Art of the Business-Mentor
A training Handbook to unlock and
develop talent within your organisation

Share in our knowledge and experience
Promote a mentoring culture within your organisation
Professionalise and skill-up those who are
in your cadre of internal mentors

Unlock the potential of your own talented people;
Develop a mentoring culture that uses both external and internal talent (there is still a need for both based on circumstance and preferences);
Develop senior people who are much more aware and emotionally resilient;
Unlock cost effective resources within the business and recognise hidden capacity, celebrate it.

The evolution of mentoring and coaching has seen both blossom in popularity. However, mentoring is not as well defined or understood, nor are the frameworks in which it is most effective and satisfying to experience. Like a coach, a mentor has to have more than just a natural gift with which to sustain, guide and challenge their mentee towards exceptional improvement. Combining elements from research, our own training, expertise and experiences, iMentor-pro has produced the first fully comprehensive training handbook for business-based mentors - The Art of the Business-Mentor.

Use our Handbook and trainers (active senior-level mentors) to provide a thorough and detailed insight into the realm of business-mentoring. We provide methodology, process, feedback and a suite of skill-sets & checklists with which a mentor can more successfully assist their mentee(s).

We also recognise that not everyone is destined to be a good mentor. Our process enables insight that provides a gracious way for some to stand down from the expectation that they can mentor.

With some 51% of organisations considering mentoring and coaching (2006 study), they need to look internally for mentoring talent will be essential. Some 43% of executives and emerging talent see benefits in accessing a mentor, external or internal, in order to meet the complexity and challenges of contemporary corporate life.

The Art of the Business-Mentor is a full two-day course, delivered internally to between 8-16 participants. The 80 page handbook is in four Modules containing some 45 sections. At a practical level it is comprehensive and immediately useable.

The learning format is discussion, example and practice based around the handbook text.

One leader told us:
“I would say if you have mentoring done well, it can change your life, and your life as a business leader. But that person needs to know what they are doing within a framework of specific understanding. Some are natural, most need training. It is too risky without this rigour.”

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iMentor-pro offer business mentoring using former Australia CEOs, chief executives and senior executives who have proven their success in business. While iMentor-pro has frameworks and methodologies around which to structure mentoring sessions with executives, iMentor-pro also customise our business mentor sessions to meet corporate and individual needs. Results and proven development are achieved by having our methodology and framework link to that of the corporate client. Using our proven business mentoring methodology or mentors can monitor progress or use software called Socrates to mentor-monitor our accredited mentors who are also trained mediators. Mediation and mentoring techniques have considerable cross-over. iMentor-pro also spell our name imentorpro to pick up typo errors in URLs using imentorpro instead of imentor-pro. Mentoring supports but is different to executive coaching. Executive coaching uses executive coaches instead of mentors. Executive coaches are excellent at skills transfer while executive mentors are better at experiential transfer. While you may look for a coach consider exactly what you want in terms of executive development. Many good executive coaches do not have a solid business career background that enables them to tackle the hard issues. They may call themselves business coach or executive coach but they fall some way short of the service provided by a trained executive mentor who goes way beyond what many executive coaches claim is executive coaching for business. Look for a qualified business mentor who knows business mentoring well. Accredited mentors are trained in the critical elements of leadership, have a mentoring methodology and framework and expect to have their contribution measured and monitored within strict confidentially. Our mentor training software and two-day training program for executive mentors in-house provides for your team development needs at a high level of executive engagement. The training is only delivered by our accredited executive business mentors. Executive development has to include reward, retention and attraction in order for succession plan to have the best intellectual and business capacity or capability in the talent pool. 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As executive coaches we can be regarded as a superior business coach using executive coaching as executive development. imentor-pro and imentorpro offer a special executive learning experience where we mentor for success along the lines of a Harvard mentoring model. Wea re regarded as international mentor professionals in the areas of executive learning and development. imentor-pro are accredited on a number of coaching panels, coach panel representation, mentoring panels and mentor panel services. Our sophisticated Socrates mentor-monitor software is based on Socrates principles in order to train mentors. Mentor training is essential for success and our framework is unique in Australia. The methodology employed meets a wide range of corporate development needs and individual development needs. Imentorpro only use trained mentors to guarantee results that are confidential and are based on reward, retention and attraction of the best candidates in the executive talent pool. We aim to stimulate intellectual business capacity and capability so as to position them in the succession plan. We are elite executive coaches. As executive coaches we can be regarded as a superior business coach using executive coaching as executive development. imentor-pro and imentorpro offer a special executive learning experience where we mentor for success along the lines of a Harvard mentoring model. Wea re regarded as international mentor professionals in the areas of executive learning and development. imentor-pro are accredited on a number of coaching panels, coach panel representation, mentoring panels and mentor panel services. Our sophisticated Socrates mentor-monitor software is based on Socrates principles in order to train mentors. Mentor training is essential for success and our framework is unique in Australia. The methodology employed meets a wide range of corporate development needs and individual development needs. Imentorpro only use trained mentors to guarantee results that are confidential and are based on reward, retention and attraction of the best candidates in the executive talent pool. We aim to stimulate intellectual business capacity and capability so as to position them in the succession plan. We are elite executive coaches. As executive coaches we can be regarded as a superior business coach using executive coaching as executive development. imentor-pro and imentorpro offer a special executive learning experience where we mentor for success along the lines of a Harvard mentoring model. Wea re regarded as international mentor professionals in the areas of executive learning and development. imentor-pro are accredited on a number of coaching panels, coach panel representation, mentoring panels and mentor panel services. Our sophisticated Socrates mentor-monitor software is based on Socrates principles in order to train mentors. Mentor training is essential for success and our framework is unique in Australia. The methodology employed meets a wide range of corporate development needs and individual development needs. Imentorpro only use trained mentors to guarantee results that are confidential and are based on reward, retention and attraction of the best candidates in the executive talent pool. We aim to stimulate intellectual business capacity and capability so as to position them in the succession plan.