Mentoring for Professional Impact

This elective course will help you discover strategies for guiding effective mentor/mentee relationships. Explore innovative approaches to building and evaluating mentoring programs tied to performance metrics.

Developing leadership

Some degree of mentoring occurs in all organizations. If left to chance, informal mentoring can lead to less than optimal results, particularly if mentors or mentees do not have much experience with such relationships. Take control of the mentoring process and create a sustainable culture of performance excellence.

This course will help mentors and mentees understand both roles in a mentoring relationship. Discover strategies for guiding effective mentor/mentee relationships. Explore innovative approaches to building and evaluating mentoring programs tied to performance metrics. This seminar may be taken alone or as part of the Supervisory Management Certificate Program.

In this workshop, attendees will learn how to:

• Implement a mentoring program that drives business goals and develops leadership at all organizational levels 
• Share and leverage organizational knowledge and skills 
• Differentiate effective mentors from effective managers
• Address common mentoring misconceptions
• Use mentoring to identify, develop and retain talent
• Create a work environment that fosters personal/professional growth and job satisfaction 
• Examine best practices in program design and implementation. 

This course can be taken individually or as part of the Supervisory Management Certificate Program. This is an elective course. Take three core classes plus three electives in five years to earn your certificate.

Who should attend

Managers, supervisors, project managers, team leaders, business owners, aspiring managers and supervisors, and anyone who manages the work of others.

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  Scott W. Lester is a Professor of Management at the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire. He received his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina. He teaches in the areas of human resource management, organizational behavior, and leadership. Scott facilitates multiple workshops in the Supervisory Management Series for UWEC Continuing Education and has years of private sector management training and leadership development experience. His current research interests include mentoring, dyadic trust, managing a multi-generational workforce, and work-life balance. Scott has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles. His research has appeared in a variety of well-respected journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, and Journal of Organizational Behavior. Scott has been on faculty at University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire for over 20 years and has received numerous honors including the UW–Eau Claire Excellence in Scholarship Award in 2010, the Chuck Tomkovick Management and Marketing Teaching Excellence Award in 2013, the UW-Eau Claire College of Business Coaching Award in 2016, and the UW-Eau Claire Excellence in Service Learning as a Faculty Mentor Award in 2018.