The purpose of this course is to provide participants with a background to mentoring, a basic framework for conducting mentoring both long and short term. The focus of the event is to enable participants to develop effectively as mentors in the context of the CILIP professional development scheme.

Mentor Training is a requisite for becoming a CILIP Mentor and this course is suitable for all CILIP members who have recently registered as CILIP mentors or are thinking of registering. Do come along and find out more about the mentoring scheme.

By the end participants will:

• Have an awareness of the function of mentoring in the CILIP CPD process
• Have had the opportunity to explore and experience mentoring
• Be able to make an assessment of their capability as mentors and identify their development needs in this area

The session will focus on generic mentoring skills