UIF provides specialized mentoring workshops customized to fit the needs of the client.
 

Specialty Workshop #1 – Communication: The Key to Successful Mentoring

In this interactive session, mentors and protégés learn how to feel confident expressing themselves to each other and to their coworkers, supervisors, friends, and family. Mentors and protégés will learn two types of listening and the importance of effective feedback. They will review the three kinds of mentoring and the Closed, Open, and Collaborative models. They will learn how to build mentoring relationships through contacts and how to balance competing values in workplace communications. They will be given tips on workplace communication and how to benefit from the perspective and wisdom of several mentors. They will be taught management strategies and then practice how to use the “I” Statement approach to inform partners, in a nonjudgmental manner, of changes that need to be made.
 

Key Lessons:

• Mentoring skills: communication, listening, feedback

• Review of the UIF Smart Mentoring models

• Building mentoring relationships through networking

• Balancing competitive values in communications

• Conflict management strategies

• Communication styles
   

Specialty Workshop #2 – Strength in Diversity: The Impact of Age, Gender and Race on Mentoring Relationships

Recent research has provided a body of knowledge on the impact of primary and secondary diversity characteristics on mentoring partnerships. Building better relationships in organizations requires the appreciation of diverse backgrounds, skills, and viewpoints. In this interactive workshop, participants will learn to acknowledge and value differences among individuals. They will also learn skills for building relationships across racial, gender, generational, and cultural lines so that, whether a person is a mentor, protégé, or both, they will not experience diversity as a barrier to reaching personal and professional growth in their mentoring partnership.
 

Key Lessons:

• Interpersonal Diversity Awareness Profile (IDAP)

• Primary and secondary dimensions of diversity

• How to find strength in diversity

• Ten dimensions of culture in a mentoring partnership

• How to maintain an enlightened mindset in a mentoring relationship

• Diversity communication awareness exercise

• Case studies in diversity
   

Specialty Workshop #3 - Managing Change: How Mentoring Can Help

Working in a rapidly changing environment can create uncertainty and challenge. In this interactive workshop, participants will discuss the stages people experience in response to new expectations in the workplace. They will discover how mentoring relationships can help individuals deal with change in a positive way, leading to growth and self-reliance.
 

Key Lessons:

• Awareness of how change affect us and how we react to it

• Experience how a mentoring partnership helps us deal with change
   

Specialty Workshop #4 – Mentoring Youth to Reach Their Highest Potential

Young people, especially those at risk, can be hesitant to get involved and unpredictable
in their relationship with adults. Learn how youth and adults can help develop constructive
mentoring relationships.
 

Key Lessons:

• Benefits and limits of mentoring youth

• The secret to successful youth mentoring

• Assessing your potential to be a youth mentor

• Developing and practicing good communication skills

• How do you know you are a “real” youth mentor?

• Taking care of your partnership

• Suggested activities to do with your youth protégé

• Design and implementation of a youth mentoring program