What we require from staff

Staff Slides in Induction Session.

What we require from staff:

-          Maintain regular contact with your student partner, arranging face to face meetings whenever your mentoring project needs to be developed.

-          To already have a plan and a sense of direction of what your mentor needs to be doing and to have already explained it to them.

-          Ensure that mentor payments (timesheets) are submitted as quickly as possible and not to be forgot about.

-          You are in a partnership with your mentor, so you must:

1.       Respect their views

2.       Take their views into consideration when commencing your project.

3.       Develop your mentoring project together

-          Ensure that you have identified a mentoring project that your mentor can benefit greatly from and also contribute to as well.

Idea – Perhaps do some sort of exercise in the training session to encourage them to begin the first stage of their project in a discussion. Then they can deliver their findings or plans to the group. Mentoring team can aid with their feedback and can also go round the room and help whilst they are in discussion?

Example of Exercise

1. The group decides who should be the primary contact person in relation to your project.

2. The group’s contact person immediately exchange contact information with the mentors involved in their project, arrange the first meeting with the mentor(s) as soon as possible

3. Start a project dairy for the group, tell each mentor to record today’s events as their first entry as practice for the blog.

4. Make a “team contract” for the project group: Go through your project criteria and establish the final result (the team contract). All group members have to sign the contract and a copy of the signed contract has to be handed in.

5. Before attending the first meeting with your staff or student partner, the group must prepare an agenda for the meeting. Some points to consider when preparing for the meeting:

a. What is it about the project that is especially appealing to you – what could be your focus working with the project?

b. How would you like to/prefer to collaborate with the staff/student partner and other relevant stakeholders or target groups?

i. Who do you need to interact with?

ii. Will you need to visit different internal departments, meet external partners, arrange interviews or focus groups with stakeholders or target groups?

6. As part of the first meeting with your staff/student partner you must present and discuss a plan for the collaboration. Your plan should include at least:

a.       A timeline providing an overview of “phases” or other milestones related to your project

b.      Details about the collaboration (activities and meetings) and a sketch for the rest of the project for the coming weeks.