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Target Audience: Staff from all job families and career stages, including academic, research, teaching, KE, and professional services colleagues, and anyone with experience of, or interest in, mentoring.

One-off face-to-face workshop

 This 90-minute interactive workshop brings together a mixed audience from across the university to explore the question: what is effective mentoring? Through guided discussion and reflection, participants will consider the purposes of mentoring, characteristics of effective mentoring relationships, and how mentoring needs and expectations can differ across roles, responsibilities, and career stages.

The session is discussion-led rather than prescriptive. Insights generated during the workshop will inform the development of practical mentoring guidance that colleagues can use across the university.

Course Outcomes/ Objectives;

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the value of mentoring in supporting career development.
2. Identify key characteristics of effective mentoring across different roles, job families, and career stages.
3. Reflect on boundaries, power dynamics, and challenges in mentoring relationships.
4. Contribute shared principles and insights to inform mentoring guidance.

Facilitated by Associate Deans across the four Faculties: Lynn Williams (lynn.williams@strath.ac.uk), Stewart Beattie, Sergey Kitaev, Dora Scholarios

Accessibility;

We are committed to ensuring our events and courses are accessible to all staff:

For on-campus activity:

·         Full access information for the venue is available via AccessAble
·         There will be audience participation
·         You are asked to attend the whole session
·         This will be a short session without a break
·         The session is relaxed – this means you can stretch, move around, stim etc.
·         Please contact osdu-equity@strath.ac.uk to discuss any further access requirements 

This is a one-off event, there is no wait list.

Accessibility

On-campus activity

• Full access information for the venue is available via AccessAble 
• Hybrid provision is not available 
• There will be audience participation
• You are asked to attend the whole session
• This is a short session without a break
• The session is relaxed – this means you can stretch, move around, stim etc.
• In line with current University health and safety guidance, attendees are encouraged to use face masks
• The room has mechanical ventilation / The room has passive ventilation (i.e. open windows
• Please contact osdu-equity@strath.ac.uk to discuss any further access requirements

Prerequisites

Cancellation Policy

When applying for a course, you should note that there will be a £50* charge to your Department / School if you do not attend your place on the course. There will be no charge as long as you cancel your booked place before the event or notify our staff at osdu@strath.ac.uk that you can no longer attend.

A Department / School is welcome to send someone else in your place if they wish without incurring a charge, providing that person has the necessary prerequisites for the course. In the case of courses split over more than one day, you are expected to attend ALL parts of the course.

*This is the standard charge for cancellation or non-attendance of a course of 1-day duration or less. For some courses, there may be a higher cancellation charge and if this is the case you will be advised of this at the time of booking.