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WOMENTORInternational Conference
Mentoring- UK experienceMarina Larios MA MSc FRSA
WiTEC President /
Director Inova Consultancy
Graz, Austria 15th – 18th October 2008
UK snapshot – Pay Gap Agriculture, hunting & forestry =10.7% Electricity, gas and water supply = 18.5% Hotels & restaurants = 16.1% Transport, storage, communication =5.0% Financial (Banking, insurance & pensions) = 39.7% Real estate, renting & business activities = 23.9% Public administration, defence, social security = 18.6% Education = 11.3% Health & social work = 32.8% Other community, social & personal activities = 20.7%
Source: Office for National Statistics, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, 2006, Table 4.6a.
Snapshot UK
Each year across the UK 3 million women experience violence, and there are many more living with the legacies of abuse experienced in the past.
The conviction rate for rape has fallen for three decades, and now stands at 5.7% of reported rapes in England and Wales, and just 4.3% in Scotland
It is estimated that violence against women costs society £40 billion each year (New Philanthropy Capital).
Snapshot UK- Women Just 20 per cent of our MPs are women. The UK ranks 41st out of 184 countries around the world in
terms of the percentage of women in parliament Women working full-time earn, on average, 17% less an hour
than men working full-time. For women working part-time the gap is 36% an hour.
Two-fifths of women in employment in Britain work part-time, compared with 11% of men
11% of directors of the UK's top 100 companies are women Employees in Britain work the longest hours of developed
nations (more than 25% work more than 45 hours a week), with men working much longer hours on average than women, mainly due to women’s caring responsibilities
Mentoring Workshop (July 08) Mentoring Research Centre- Sheffield
Hallam University www.shu.ac.uk Open Space Methodology Participants: private sector, public
bodies, academics, coaches, recent graduates, project managers, trainers, mentees
Emerging Themes
1. Mentoring Approaches in the UK
2. Getting started in Mentoring/Skills for Mentors
3. A European Federation for Mentors/Funding Issues
Emerging Themes.. cont
4. Mentoring Girls/Women in SET
5. Do mentors need to be more ‘educated’ or ‘experienced’ than Mentees?
6. Mentoring for Women Returners
Mentoring Approaches in the UK
Variety of approaches Mentee commitment- what does this
mean? Paid mentoring versus free mentoring Voluntary mentoring programmes
versus organisation’s programmes
Getting started in Mentoring/Skills for Mentors
Importance of training for mentors Development of skills for mentors and
supervision Matching: Strategies for successful
matching (using psychometric testing, learning styles, etc)
Management of expectations
Mentoring Girls/Women in SET
Need to support girls and women in non traditional fields
Teacher’s development via mentoring Mentoring as a way of tackling
stereotypes Examples of successful mentoring
programmes for women in SET
Do mentors need to be more ‘educated’ or ‘experienced’ than Mentees? Expectations of relationship Definition of mentoring will in turn define
mentor – mentee relationship Evaluation of programmes- key
component for monitoring mentor-mentee relationship
Mentoring for Women Returners
Stages of transition: how to support clients during these changes?
Successful mentoring programmes in the UK for women returners have proved the business case for mentoring eg. Equalitec www.equalitec.org.uk
Mentoring outcomes
Learning about the self
Learning about helping relationships
Introduction to action learning
Developing creative thinking techniques
Establishment of a support / networking group
Empowerment to succeed
Results
Increased self-confidence Empowerment Shift in paradigms Self- belief Increased motivation
= R E T U R N or T R A I N I N G
More feedback…
‘It has made me feel more positive’ ‘I enjoyed the way we explored different
aspects of moving forwards’ ‘It has made me think about my goals
and what is important’ Gained ‘inspiration and confidence’ from
involvement in the group
Feedback ‘The mentoring circle is an independent
forum to discuss ideas and plans for business, where everyone is focused on support and encouragement’
‘the mentoring circle has helped me to make new connections with businesses I can work with’
‘The support of the other women in the group was the best motivation to keep going’
More feedback…
‘ The mentoring circle provided great help and encouragement at a time when a lot of decisions had to be made’
‘This experience has had a positive impact on both my business and personal development’
‘My mentor was very inspirational..I am now moving forward with confidence.’
Conclusions
Mentoring is about transformational change
Mentoring methodology= self reflection + action learning + strategy
Change: multilayer impact
Contact details
Marina Larios
www.inovaconsult.com
mlarios@inovaconsult.com
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