• Length:
    6 Weeks
  • Effort:
    1–2 hours per week
  • Price:

    FREE
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  • Institution
    KULeuvenX
  • Subject:
    Education & Teacher Training
  • Level:
    Intermediate
  • Language:
    English
  • Video Transcript:
    English
  • Course Type:
    Self-paced on your time

Prerequisites

No prior knowledge is assumed or required for this course.

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About this course

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As a mentor you will focus on developing those competences which help mentees to build and sustain their competitive advantages.

This course is aimed at those who are guiding and leading professionals towards achieving their career goals. We offer you a set of tools, principles, goals and practical techniques to successfully start, execute and finalize a mentoring cycle.

Consider this course as a manual and a checklist available whenever you need input or a reminder for what would work to improve the mentoring cycle you have involved yourself in.

What you'll learn

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  • Learn to map the various forms of professional career guidance and identify the particular role of mentoring.
  • Recognize what drives somebody to take up the role as a mentor.
  • Obtain an overview of the practicalities and prerequisites for a well-structured and sustainable mentoring cycle.
  • Understand the "Competency based - Growth & Success by strengthening competitive advantages" approach.
  • Distinct what stands out in importance for an engineer in a holistic mentoring cycle.

Meet your instructors

KU Leuven
Arthur Skenazi
Researcher
VUB
Kristel Dewulf
Innovation Coach / Program Director Postgraduate Program in Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Engineering
Ghent University
Karine Evers
Coordinator of the Postgraduate Programme in Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Engineering
Hasselt University

Course created with support from

University of AntwerpGhent UniversityUHasseltVrije Universiteit BrusselFlanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship

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