The Humber Branch Mentoring Scheme aims to help CIPD students and practitioners (mentees) to develop their personal and professional competencies through mentoring provided by more experienced HR practitioners (mentors). Mentoring is an arrangement in which an experienced individual (mentor) offers ongoing support and guidance to a less experienced individual (mentee) to help the mentee manage his or her own learning and career development.
Mentoring can focus on several different areas: to explore latent abilities, to provide knowledge and skills as opportunities and needs arise, for the mentor to serve as a critical friend who enables the mentee to sharpen skills and hone their thinking. Mentoring can be especially beneficial during career transition.
This member-to-member mentoring scheme is volunteer-led.
Mentees
We aim to link HR & L&D professionals with the distinct purpose of enabling the mentee to: develop themselves; better meet work challenges; develop strengths and competencies; learn from example and mistakes; and gain knowledge and more experience.
Mentors
The mentor will also benefit from our scheme by: gaining satisfaction from nurturing and enabling an individual to develop; helping to unleash untapped potential; being instrumental in career transition and/or transformation, and developing their own skills and CPD.
If you want to consider being mentored or have some time to offer to become a branch mentor, with training and support available, please get in touch.