In honour of National Mentoring Month, we bring you ‘The Power of Mentoring to Build a ‘Learning Nursery’’ webinar hosted by early years lecturer and author, Dr. Mona Sakr.
In this free childcare webinar, we discuss:
- The power of mentoring within the early years sector,
- The benefits of mentoring for both a mentor and mentee, including staff retention
- What great mentoring looks like
- How mentoring can be supported through resources, routines, and culture
- The potentials of ‘Reverse Mentoring’
- How does mentoring affect staff relationships and motivation
- Effective ways to improve the culture of any setting.
Remember, mentoring does not necessarily have a clear beginning, middle, and end, and in a learning nursery, we are all constantly learning; we are all constantly growing.
At the heart of great mentoring is the ability to listen. In the spirit of this, kickback and listen to Mona discuss how to be a great mentor, how mentoring affects staff relationships, followed by a fantastic live Q&A discussion around what mentoring can look like in busy early years settings.
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🕒 Timestamps
0:00 Introducing our Guest Speaker
1:36 Welcome Dr Mona Sakr and Overview
3:46 The Learning Nursery
6:28 Tools Needs to Build a Learning Nursery
8:03 Definition of Mentoring
8:33 What is Mentoring
12:20 Benefits of Mentoring
14:55 The Role of Leaders in Supporting Mentoring
21:03 Reverse Mentoring i.e., modelling
24:04 Presentation overview
25:01 Q: Should a mentor share the conversions with line managers?
28:07 Q: How does coaching differ from mentoring?
29:49 Q: How to mentor a young mentor that lacks confidence?
31:38 Q: Do you stipulate a timeframe?
34:24 Q: Should mentoring happen in ratio?
36:11 Q: Should your mentor work directly with you?
37:53 Q: How can settings find the time when there is a staff shortage?
41:03 Q: How to encourage mentoring when staff members lack confidence?
43:40 Q: An example of a mentoring conversation
47:39 Q: Do you have to document these conversations?
49:27 Q: Would you record mentor meetings or set targets for follow up mentor meetings?
51:14 Thank you for attending!
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Useful Resources
Presentation slides - www.parenta.com/wp-content/upl...
Parenta How to Guide: Mentoring in the workplace -hello.parenta.com/parenta/for...
Parenta How to Guide: The importance of a mentor and how to support your staff - hello.parenta.com/parenta/for...