Coaching Qualifications & Supervision

Mentoring with Confidence

Equipping your mentor community with the skills, tools, techniques, and confidence needed to deliver expert, professional mentoring

What you can expect

Evidence suggests that training internal mentors effectively is crucial for ensuring that mentoring relationships are productive and mutually beneficial. Delivered either face-to-face or virtually, this programme consists of 2 tutor-led modules, each lasting half a day, combined with self-directed learning to reinforce understanding and encourage peer-supported practice and experimentation. The goal is to equip your mentor community with the skills, tools, techniques, and confidence needed to deliver expert, professional mentoring. By focusing on the essential skills that define effective mentorship, your organisation can ensure a consistent, high-quality mentoring experience for all mentees.

Partnership-led

Designed for you and your organisation, a mentoring framework that works within your context

Setting up your mentors for success

Drawing upon our expertise and experience to support confidence and excellence in delivery

Engaging, interactive and peer-supported

Bringing your mentor community together fosters collaborative learning, mutual support, and shared accountability, strengthening mentoring as a vital discipline within your organisation

Programme Overview

Me as Mentor

At this initial module we will bring your mentor community together to both clarify what is expected and to energise them around their responsibilities as a mentor. This module sets the community up for success and provides them with the confidence they need to get started.

Defining what mentoring is and isn’t
Core competencies of a great mentor
Key principles of a great mentor/mentee relationship
What am I bringing into this mentor relationship – the importance of self-awareness
Set up for the first mentee session – creating impact – contracting, goal setting, measuring success
Boundaries and scenario planning – ‘what-if’?

Peer-supported practice and self-led learning

A key element of the program is fostering peer-to-peer learning by creating opportunities for your mentor community to collaborate and support one another. By encouraging ongoing discussions between modules, this approach builds momentum, strengthens connections, and raises overall expectations, driving continuous improvement.

Triad or pair-based Action Learning Sets
Mentor session practice
Self-led reading and reflection

Mentoring with Confidence

As your mentor community start to work with their mentees this module focuses on developing the essential skills for mentoring with real confidence providing a brilliant platform for engaging, effective and impactful relationships.

Developing focussed listening skills
Solution-focused principles
Asking great mentoring questions
Bringing effective challenge
Seeking and providing feedback
Closing the mentoring relationship

Embedding and sustaining learning

To ensure that your mentors continue to grow in confidence and effectiveness, we offer ongoing support and development for your mentor community. This helps sustain their learning and keeps momentum high, maximising the impact of their mentorship efforts.

Mentor toolkit – session guides, best practice tools and techniques, policies and guidelines
Encouraging reflective practice
Invitation to join the Mentoring with Confidence community
Option for mentor CPD

Our pledge

Ensuring your mentor community is set up to engage effectively and with maximum impact...
“Mentoring is a much valued discipline with huge benefits to mentees and to the organisation when delivered professionally and within a clear framework. Our Mentoring with Confidence programme ensures your mentor community is set up to engage effectively with mentees and ensure maximum impact from the mentor/mentee relationship”

Hilary F
Director of Professional Qualifications and Supervision

Unlock your potential today

When you are ready to take the next step in your professional coaching journey please reach out to our team at MRA and we will be very happy to schedule a call to ensure you are confident in the programme you have selected.