One-to-one mentoring or coaching sessions are arranged at Deafworks – of 90 minutes or 120 minutes length. These are for deaf people only.
Mentoring for deaf staff
- Are you working in a hearing organisation?
- Are you preparing for promotion?
- Do you want to know how to work with hearing colleagues better?
- Do you work within a deaf organisation?
- Do you want to feel more positive about your work?
- Do you want to have increased choices and opportunities at work?
- Do you want to be in more control over your working life?
- Have you been marked out as destined for better things?
- Do you need support and interview practice?
If you have answered ‘yes’ to any two of the above questions, then mentoring is for you.
Key roles of mentoring
Coaching
- Work counselling
- Facilitating
- Networking
- Discussion
- Personal insight
Are you ready for any one of these? If so, then you will find mentoring helpful.
“A mentor is a more experienced individual, willing to share his/her knowledge and experiences with someone less experienced than themselves, in a relationship of mutual trust, and to provide assistance, in respect of the mentee’s career development and aspirations for the future”.
What does a mentor do?
Assisting the mentee to establish realistic career goals
- Acting as a sounding board
- Challenging the mentee
- Acting as a gateway
- Passing on knowledge
Is this what you are looking for? If so, talk to your manager and contact us general@deafworks.co.uk.
Who would be your mentor?
Laraine Callow (deaf) has held management positions in a variety of organisations (charitable, education, commercial) and has mentored many deaf professionals and deaf managers in local government, social work, charity, commercial organisations.. Self employed people and others have also benefited from Deafworks’ mentoring.
You as a mentee
You would be expected to keep a file of notes, thoughts, action plans, discussion notes, etc plus information given by the mentor as mentoring is an active learning process which is totally confidential!
Is that it?
No, when you become a mentee, you also automatically learn more about management issues – simply because we would go through the following :
- Expectations and setting up of contract
- Boundaries
- Role definition and key tasks
- Facilitation and active listening
- Follow up action on agreed tasks
What about fees, times and things like that?
- Fees would be sorted out with your organisation before you start. Just leave it with us.
- Times and arrangements can be discussed by minicom or email with Laraine direct.
Simple!
The first day of the rest of your life starts today
- mentoring can help you shape your work in the way you want.
Email Nicholas Callow now to discuss how this can be taken forward.
