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)

Lighting the Path

Author: TRS
Date: 5/3/2006