Mentoring uk experience

WOMENTORInternational Conference

Mentoring- UK experienceMarina Larios MA MSc FRSA

WiTEC President /

Director Inova Consultancy

Graz, Austria 15th – 18th October 2008

UK snapshot – Pay Gap Agriculture, hunting & forestry =10.7% Electricity, gas and water supply = 18.5% Hotels & restaurants = 16.1% Transport, storage, communication =5.0% Financial (Banking, insurance & pensions) = 39.7% Real estate, renting & business activities = 23.9% Public administration, defence, social security = 18.6% Education = 11.3% Health & social work = 32.8% Other community, social & personal activities = 20.7%

Source: Office for National Statistics, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, 2006, Table 4.6a.

Snapshot UK

Each year across the UK 3 million women experience violence, and there are many more living with the legacies of abuse experienced in the past.

The conviction rate for rape has fallen for three decades, and now stands at 5.7% of reported rapes in England and Wales, and just 4.3% in Scotland

It is estimated that violence against women costs society £40 billion each year (New Philanthropy Capital).

Snapshot UK- Women Just 20 per cent of our MPs are women. The UK ranks 41st out of 184 countries around the world in

terms of the percentage of women in parliament Women working full-time earn, on average, 17% less an hour

than men working full-time. For women working part-time the gap is 36% an hour.

Two-fifths of women in employment in Britain work part-time, compared with 11% of men

11% of directors of the UK's top 100 companies are women Employees in Britain work the longest hours of developed

nations (more than 25% work more than 45 hours a week), with men working much longer hours on average than women, mainly due to women’s caring responsibilities

Mentoring Workshop (July 08) Mentoring Research Centre- Sheffield

Hallam University www.shu.ac.uk Open Space Methodology Participants: private sector, public

bodies, academics, coaches, recent graduates, project managers, trainers, mentees

Emerging Themes

1. Mentoring Approaches in the UK

2. Getting started in Mentoring/Skills for Mentors

3. A European Federation for Mentors/Funding Issues

Emerging Themes.. cont

4. Mentoring Girls/Women in SET

5. Do mentors need to be more ‘educated’ or ‘experienced’ than Mentees?

6. Mentoring for Women Returners

Mentoring Approaches in the UK

Variety of approaches Mentee commitment- what does this

mean? Paid mentoring versus free mentoring Voluntary mentoring programmes

versus organisation’s programmes

Getting started in Mentoring/Skills for Mentors

Importance of training for mentors Development of skills for mentors and

supervision Matching: Strategies for successful

matching (using psychometric testing, learning styles, etc)

Management of expectations

Mentoring Girls/Women in SET

Need to support girls and women in non traditional fields

Teacher’s development via mentoring Mentoring as a way of tackling

stereotypes Examples of successful mentoring

programmes for women in SET

Do mentors need to be more ‘educated’ or ‘experienced’ than Mentees? Expectations of relationship Definition of mentoring will in turn define

mentor – mentee relationship Evaluation of programmes- key

component for monitoring mentor-mentee relationship

Mentoring for Women Returners

Stages of transition: how to support clients during these changes?

Successful mentoring programmes in the UK for women returners have proved the business case for mentoring eg. Equalitec www.equalitec.org.uk

Mentoring outcomes

Learning about the self

Learning about helping relationships

Introduction to action learning

Developing creative thinking techniques

Establishment of a support / networking group

Empowerment to succeed

Results

Increased self-confidence Empowerment Shift in paradigms Self- belief Increased motivation

= R E T U R N or T R A I N I N G

More feedback…

‘It has made me feel more positive’ ‘I enjoyed the way we explored different

aspects of moving forwards’ ‘It has made me think about my goals

and what is important’ Gained ‘inspiration and confidence’ from

involvement in the group

Feedback ‘The mentoring circle is an independent

forum to discuss ideas and plans for business, where everyone is focused on support and encouragement’

‘the mentoring circle has helped me to make new connections with businesses I can work with’

‘The support of the other women in the group was the best motivation to keep going’

More feedback…

‘ The mentoring circle provided great help and encouragement at a time when a lot of decisions had to be made’

‘This experience has had a positive impact on both my business and personal development’

‘My mentor was very inspirational..I am now moving forward with confidence.’

Conclusions

Mentoring is about transformational change

Mentoring methodology= self reflection + action learning + strategy

Change: multilayer impact

Contact details

Marina Larios

www.inovaconsult.com

[email protected]