Level 3 Award in Workplace Mentoring (Blended learning)

Level 3 Award in Workplace Mentoring,

A mentor is someone who teaches or gives help and advice to a less experienced and often younger person. In an organisational setting, a mentor influences the personal and professional growth of a mentee. Most traditional mentorships involve having senior employees’ mentor more junior employees, but mentors do not necessarily have to be more senior than the people they mentor. What matters is that mentors have experience that others can learn from.

Mentoring is a different skill from coaching. Coaching is a structured process where a professional coach assists individuals or teams in setting and achieving specific goals, typically focused on performance improvement within a defined timeframe. It involves providing guidance, feedback, and support tailored to the unique needs and objectives of the coachee, fostering skill enhancement, personal development, and goal attainment. Mentoring, on the other hand, is a nurturing relationship where a more experienced individual (mentor) imparts knowledge, advice, and insights to a less experienced individual (mentee) to facilitate long-term personal and professional growth. It focuses on holistic development, relationship-building, and wisdom transfer, often extending beyond immediate goals to encompass broader career and life aspirations.

The qualification, set at Level 3 with 21 Guided Learning Hours, will be appropriate and applicable to a wide range of vocational areas including racecourse officials, racecourse staff, stable and stud staff, trainers, jockeys and administrators.

The project objectives are to:

• Enhance the sharing of skill, confidence and experience amongst the industry, fostering a supportive culture centralising learning and development.
• Standardise and professionalise current mentoring programmes to identify synergies and reduce unnecessary duplication and fragmentation.
• Develop a framework for long term, sustainable provision of workplace mentoring.

This qualification will recognise the huge strength and depth of experience of people in the sector and give them the opportunity to share this experience to the benefit of the whole industry.

• Day 1 will be delivered at Hexham Racecourse 10-4pm. on 3rd November
• Sessions 2-6 including final submissions will be held online with a blended learning approach.

The cost of this course will be £55 which will cover the qualification registration fee with the remaining learning funded by the RSDP Programme.