Material for Mentoring to Work: Tools for discussion for mentee and mentor
Lappalainen, Sari; Pirttikoski, Virve; Ahola, Marja; Kiijärvi-Pihkala, Marja; Kaartinen, Olga; Seppälä, Dina (2021)
LAB-ammattikorkeakoulu
2021
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-827-404-2
https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-827-404-2
Tiivistelmä
Mentoring to work is a great option if you have i.e., moved to Finland, are transitioning to working life and need a little spar for this phase of life. Participating in mentoring gives you an opportunity to strengthen your professional self-knowledge, create professional networks and gain more knowledge about what it’s like to work in Finland. Alternatively, mentoring to work could be for you if you have worked in Finnish job markets for a while, you want to share your know-how, and learn i.e., new cultural and language skills. In mentoring to work, a mentees and mentors needs meet, and it’s possible for both to learn something new in this equal interaction process.
This material for mentoring to work is for mentees, mentors, and organizations running mentoring programs. If you want to participate in mentoring, you can find yourself a mentoring partner, or find an organization that organizes mentoring. This material is practical and aimed to support the progression of mentoring process. You can find a short introduction about the principles and roles of mentoring to work in the beginning of this material. After that, the material is divided into preparation, action, and closure phases. In each phase, you will find several exercises that the mentor and mentee can use in the meetings to support dialogical conversation. Choose the topics that interest you in this material, whether it was identification of prior competence, networking, or practicing professional language.
The mentoring tools have been created in a project of LAB University of Applied Sciences (ESR 2019-2020). The cooperation partners included Turku University of Applied Sciences and Tampere University of Applied Sciences from Finland, and KU Leuven, Economic House of Osteend and Beyond the Horizon from Belgium. In addition, some nursing students from LAB University of Applied Sciences and integration training students from Salpaus Further Education have participated in developing this material. We have also made use of other publications in the field in creating this material.
This material for mentoring to work is for mentees, mentors, and organizations running mentoring programs. If you want to participate in mentoring, you can find yourself a mentoring partner, or find an organization that organizes mentoring. This material is practical and aimed to support the progression of mentoring process. You can find a short introduction about the principles and roles of mentoring to work in the beginning of this material. After that, the material is divided into preparation, action, and closure phases. In each phase, you will find several exercises that the mentor and mentee can use in the meetings to support dialogical conversation. Choose the topics that interest you in this material, whether it was identification of prior competence, networking, or practicing professional language.
The mentoring tools have been created in a project of LAB University of Applied Sciences (ESR 2019-2020). The cooperation partners included Turku University of Applied Sciences and Tampere University of Applied Sciences from Finland, and KU Leuven, Economic House of Osteend and Beyond the Horizon from Belgium. In addition, some nursing students from LAB University of Applied Sciences and integration training students from Salpaus Further Education have participated in developing this material. We have also made use of other publications in the field in creating this material.