Peer Mentoring is a fast-paced one-day workshop designed to help people transfer knowledge, bring new staff up to speed, or cross-train efficiently and successfully. Originally developed for engineers at Microsoft, the workshop uses plain language to teach practical, real-world communication and training skills you can use immediately.

Facilitated by popular speaker and knowledge retention expert, Dr. David DeLong, the Peer Mentoring workshop provides clear and simple tools to help you manage change in the workplace. It fundamentally improves the way subject matter experts communicate with and train each other. By the end of the day, all participants will be equipped with a measurable action plan to transfer their knowledge to others.

Who Should Attend?
This full day workshop is designed for anyone, at any level of the organization, who is responsible for mentoring other employees, whether formally or informally. The tools and processes are designed to help subject matter experts deliver on-the-job training while still maintaining a normal workload.

What You Will Learn

• Role definitions for peer mentors, managers, apprentices.
• Techniques for efficiently managing day-to-day interactions.
• Strategies for breaking knowledge into manageable chunks.
• How to define, prioritize and plan for training new skills.
• Model for creating a one-hour "lesson plan" in 5 minutes.
• Demonstration techniques that ensure the demo is learned in one round.
• A problem-solving model that keeps responsibility with the apprentice.
• Tips for determining the least information necessary to make a point.
• Ways to identify and teach to different learning styles.
• Questions to ensure that learning has happened.
• Methods for preparing peer-appropriate feedback.

Find out more about Mentoring and Knowledge Retention expert, Dr. David DeLong

Contact Executive Forum for details.