A model for Industry Training Organisations and employers
This report details how Downer New Zealand and two ITOs used mentoring to improve learning outcomes and save company dollars.
The project also produced practical support resources to support mentoring in the workplace, or industry training.
Resource download:
Report | A Collaborative Approach to Mentoring (PDF, 1Mb)
How-to guide | A Collaborative Approach to Mentoring (PDF, 1Mb)
This guide aimed to address many of the questions mentors may have around understanding what’s involved, what the mentoring role is (and isn’t) as well as providing mentors with some tools and places to go to get more support
Mentor’s Workbook | A Collaborative Approach to Mentoring (PDF, 1Mb)
A downloadable workbook for planning and recording mentoring sessions
Mentor’s Question Wheel (PDF, 2Mb)
A printable Mentor’s question wheel resource that can be used by mentors to challenge mentees to question themselves.
Supporting video:
Background:
A project, completed in 2016, that trialled employer-led, collaborative mentoring for nearly 100 Downer New Zealand apprentices in the workplace. A collaboration between Downer New Zealand (as the the employer) and Connexis and the Primary ITO (as the two Industry Training Organisations).
Report produced by Sandra Johnson.
Co-funded by the Ako Aotearoa National Project Fund (NPF)