Professional Conversations - Mentoring

Mentoring assists leaders in their ability to manage better.

This course will introduce you to the mentoring skills needed to support others in building capacity and confidence. You will learn how to plan, implement and evaluate mentoring conversations within your professional context. You will also gain an understanding of the benefits, limitations, barriers and risks for successful mentoring conversations. This course has a four-week teaching period requiring a total of approximately 40 hours of learning. All course learning materials are available on demand.

About the course

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you'll be able to:

• Make contextually appropriate plans and decisions to effectively implement mentoring conversations.
• Apply mentoring knowledge and skills to plan, implement and evaluate micro conversations within your workplace.

What topics will you cover?

• You as a mentor
• What mentoring is
• Benefits, limitations, barriers and risks of mentoring
• Foundation qualities and skills of a good mentor
• What mentoring looks like in practice

Assessment

To be eligible for a digital badge for this course, you will need to successfully complete an assessment which includes:

• A mentoring plan
• Conducting a mentoring session
• Writing a critical analysis
• This optional assessment is due at the beginning of week 7
  
  

• This level for this microcredential is Proficient.
  The material for this course has been designed for students who have already demonstrated a high level of skill in the subject matter. Students must have relevant experience and/or have studied the course material before (at competent level).

Intakes

You have the option to begin this short course on the following dates:

• 07 Jul 2025 (Block 4)

Course Credit