Training Agendas
Training #1
1 1/2 hours face-to-face
- Welcome
- Introductions (time for sharing expectations)
- Skit (reminder of what it's like to be new on the job)
- Support from administration (the administrative perspective)
- Nuts and bolts (program details)
- Training needs (assessment of what mentors need in training)
- Questions and answers
- Next steps
Training #2
2 hours via ICN
- Overview (what's happened, agenda for session)
- What you told us (summary of responses from session 1)
- A walk in their shoes (what it means to be new)
- Mentoring - what it is and isn't (the first steps in building an understanding of mentoring)
- New staff orientation (what and how it happens, how it relates to mentoring)
- Mentoring objectives
- Next steps
Training #3
1 hour face-to-face breakfast
- Update
- Sharing from mentors (successes, frustrations, ideas)
- Web site brainstorming (ideas for the web site)
- Next steps
Training #4
- Self-directed learning through reading (two books provided)

Author: TRS
Date: 5/3/2006