Mentoring Masterclass hosted by Jane Lewes.  Jane is an international mentoring expert and runs The Learning Consultancy.  The masterclass, which was run twice following positive feedback, allowed mentors to connect, share and get the latest insights on mentoring.

Evening for mentees to connect and share their experiences with each other and get the most from the Impact Mentoring programme. Four seasoned mentors will discuss the recent paper written by Helen Pitcher OBE about the benefits of mentoring; and share their own perspectives.

Once a banker, always a banker. Once a lawyer, always a lawyer. Correct? Not anymore. In this session, Sonal Bahl, Career Coach shared seven tips on how to navigate career change, and 2 of these 7 tips are related to resetting your mindset, without which the other tips will not really work.

Between Beatrice’s sterling work insisting on gender-balanced and all-female slates for candidates and what gets measured, gets done! Stanislav’s data on female CEO’s making it to board positions, Byron’s sharing his experiences working with board’ & CEOs, seeing a steady evolution of diversity in the boardroom as well as increased activity from investors taking action, we are going in the right direction.

There’s still a lot of work to be done, as Avivah Wittenberg-Cox says ‘you only get gender by design’. Quotas are not the answer, Boards and CEOs agree. @Ronan Dunne says “bring in the practicality, the conditions…to allow women to be the success they deserve to be’. All agreed, we need change in the mindset of recruiting….

Event Summary Available

This was the second of 2021 Mentoring Workshops series. It was an interactive 90-minute session with Jane Lewes covering the all-important mentoring skill – listening, in which Jane took us through a series of exercises and shared with us best practices. The objective of this session was to:
• Identify and practise techniques to improve listening skills;
• Enhance skills in correctly assessing non-verbal communication;
• Identify filters in the listening process and develop skills to eliminate these;
• Complete a personal action plan aimed at developing more effective listening skills

The third of our 2021 Mentoring Workshop series. We covered the very important topic of ‘Developing Insightful Questioning Skills’. It was a 90-minute interactive session. Jane Lewes took us through a series of exercises and shared with us best practices. Questioning is a very powerful tool in mentoring as they:
 Promote empowerment and autonomy
 Stimulate new thinking
 Point the way to choices and options
 Act as “forward” or “reverse” to the mentoring process