Our History
In 2013 Richard Daniel Curtis, a Children and young people’s behaviour expert working in a local authority, grew tired of the impact of funding cuts and the changes it meant for vulnerable people. He left to set up a consultancy service for schools and colleges. Richard has had a great deal of experience working alongside …
Q&A (What is mentoring?)
What is a Mentor? A mentor is a trusted and experienced advisor who trains and counsels less experienced people. They listen, offer advice and guide a mentee as they work through their own difficulties. What are the benefits of Mentoring? Mentoring has been shown to help develop individuals within all kinds of organisations at all …
Delivery Partners
The Mentoring School are proud to work with our trusted delivery partners who are enabling more people to access our certified mentor courses. If you’d like to find out more about being a partner, click here. West Berkshire Training Consortium 01635 35975 claire@wbtc-uk.com www.wbtc-uk.com Apprentice CS Mentoring 07456 617 657 colin@csmentoring.co.uk www.csmentoring.co.uk Sports, Youth
Delivering our courses
We believe that collaboration with our partners allows us to deliver more of our courses to positively impact the lives of more people. To ensure this we train their trainers to our highest standards of excellence and support them while they implement our courses. Download the info pack to learn how you can benefit from …
Levels of Mentoring
There are 8 levels of Mentoring recognised by The Mentoring School. These levels were written by Richard Daniel Curtis in 2018, these levels help to establish the type of mentor required for different situations. It also helps mentors to understand the level they are working at and their developmental opportunities. 8 Levels of Mentoring Awareness …
Mentor’s Mantra
Every mentor recognises that it can be challenging to structure conversations to aid problem solving. The Mentor’s Mantra was developed by Richard Daniel Curtis to provide a structure for how a mentor can facilitate such conversations. These four steps feature daily part of a mentor’s work and make a huge difference to the way that support …
Mentoring and Coaching Questions
Coaching questions What do you think the barriers are to… How could you address that problem? How do you suggest this matter is approached ? What do you think you could do next? Have you had a similar experience that you can reflect on and use? Where do you want to be in 1 years …
Don’t lose out on downtime because of Coronavirus – an opportunity for staff development
Many small and large businesses are being affected by Covid-19 and the social isolation measures being rolled out by the Government. This is forecast to have a massive impact on trade and it is important for us to find ways of maximising the productivity of our staff who are home-working and also prepare for making …
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Receiving Reverse Mentoring
Reverse Mentoring is the practice of using trained junior or younger staff or people in your organisation to mentor senior colleagues. It helps develop organisations, procedures, policies, ethos and can assist with making an organisation more reflective of the views of their younger generations. This two-part course has been put together to assist the senior …