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Mentoring engineers with impact (edX)

Mentoring engineers with impact (edX)

This course provides a framework to become a better and more seasoned mentor. You will learn to develop and offer a sustainable and well-structured mentoring path to your mentees. As a mentor you will focus on developing those competences which help mentees to build and sustain their competitive advantages.

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This course is aimed at those who are guiding and leading professionals towards achieving their career goals. We offer you a set of tools, principles, goals and practical techniques to successfully start, execute and finalize a mentoring cycle.
Consider this course as a manual and a checklist available whenever you need input or a reminder for what would work to improve the mentoring cycle you have involved yourself in.

What you'll learn

  • Learn to map the various forms of professional career guidance and identify the particular role of mentoring.
  • Recognize what drives somebody to take up the role as a mentor.
  • Obtain an overview of the practicalities and prerequisites for a well-structured and sustainable mentoring cycle.
  • Understand the "Competency based - Growth & Success by strengthening competitive advantages" approach.
  • Distinct what stands out in importance for an engineer in a holistic mentoring cycle.
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