Mentoring in the workplace

A full-day workshop equipping mentors with the skills to guide others’ professional growth.

This workshop gives mentors the knowledge and skills to make a real impact on their mentees’ professional development. Participants explore the fundamental principles of mentoring, from knowledge transfer and skill enhancement to building a more supportive organisational culture, and understand the responsibilities that come with the role. Participants leave equipped to develop, facilitate, monitor, and evaluate a mentoring relationship from start to finish.

Duration: Full day  ·  Delivery: Online or Face-to-face  ·  Cohort: 8-20 participants

Aligned to the APS Craft Capability Framework and APS Workforce Strategy 2025.

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What your team will learn

The skills to guide a mentoring relationship from start to finish.

Participants learn how to develop a mentoring plan and build the skills to facilitate a mentoring relationship in practice. The workshop covers how to monitor a mentoring relationship as it progresses and how to evaluate its effectiveness, so mentors leave with a complete framework for supporting a mentee’s growth.

What we cover

    • Developing a mentoring plan — Building a plan to guide the mentoring relationship.
    • Facilitating a mentoring relationship — Putting mentoring skills into practice with a mentee.
    • Monitoring a mentoring relationship — Tracking progress and adjusting the relationship as it develops.
    • Evaluating mentoring effectiveness — Assessing how effective the mentoring relationship has been.

Workshop format

A full day, delivered to your team as a closed cohort.

McMillan’s Mentoring in the Workplace workshop gives participants a comprehensive grounding in the principles and practice of mentoring. Participants build the skills to develop, facilitate, monitor, and evaluate a mentoring relationship, so they leave ready to support a mentee’s professional growth.

At a glance

    • Length: Full day
    • Audience: All — tailored to audience as required
    • Delivery: Online (live, facilitated) or Face-to-face
    • Cohort size: Minimum 8, maximum 20 participants
    • Approach: Facilitated instruction

Who the workshop is for

Suitable for team members at any level — tailored to the seniority and function of your cohort.

Mentoring in the Workplace is designed for team members at any level who mentor others or are preparing to take on a mentoring role. We tailor content and examples to your cohort’s seniority and function before delivery.

Typical cohorts

    • Staff taking on a formal mentoring role for the first time
    • Experienced staff wanting to build structure around informal mentoring they already do
    • Whole teams wanting a shared, consistent approach to mentoring within the organisation

When this workshop is a good fit:

    • You’re establishing or strengthening a formal mentoring program
    • Staff want a clear framework for developing and facilitating a mentoring relationship
    • You want mentors equipped to monitor and evaluate the relationships they support
    • You’re investing in the professional development and organisational culture that mentoring supports

How we deliver

Evidence-based training grounded in adult learning principles, applied consistently to every engagement.

1. Initiate

Confirm outcomes, audience, schedule, and success measures.

2. Design and tailor

Shape content and scenarios to your workplace.

3. Deliver

Interactive, practical sessions online or in-person.

4. Evaluate and close

Capture feedback, measure impact, document improvements.

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Prefer to call? Phone us on (02) 6230 0266.

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