My Mentoring

My Mentoring is a community platform exclusively for College members of all disciplines and all career stages. You can use it to connect with others in a safe and secure way. As a member, access to this benefit is free.

You can sign up to My Mentoring as either a mentee, a mentor, or both. Both roles will allow you to maintain your CPD and increase your future employability.

Mentors are supportive, open and honest, yet ready to challenge and question their mentee when necessary; encouraging the mentee to develop their own skills and abilities.

A mentee is someone who wants to achieve their full potential; learning from a person experienced in supporting others’ personal and professional development.

You will find a wealth of resources on My Mentoring designed to support you in your role as either a mentee or mentor, and help you make the most of your mentoring relationships.

My Mentoring is easy to use. Start today by creating your profile and searching for a match that suits you.

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Why be a mentor, and support a mentee?

Being a mentor is an incredible way to connect and build relationships with other like-minded members. Through you can share professional knowledge, skills and experience, and help others to develop and flourish in their careers.

As a mentor, you can improve your leadership, communication and coaching skills, achieve increased job satisfaction and a sense of personal accomplishment.

You'll be supportive, open and honest, yet ready to challenge and question your mentee when necessary; encouraging the mentee to develop their own skills and abilities.

Mentors play a key role within the College, supporting mentees in their professional development, as well as broadening your own mentoring skillset and diversifying your network of colleagues. You can mentor someone beyond your specialty or profession – we are a multi-disciplinary College and mentoring is open to all our members.

To become a mentor using our My Mentoring platform, you need to have completed an appropriate training course – the College Mentoring Programme course, or an equivalent mentoring qualification. To see when the next course takes place, check our listing of upcoming non-clinical skills courses.

Watch this video to hear from David Wylie, Dean of the Faculty of Podiatric Medicine, about why he likes being a mentor.

Key benefits for mentors

• Improve your communication, leadership and management skills.
• Develop skills that can be beneficially applied in other key professional areas.
• Gain a fresh perspective on your own performance and the way you approach your work.
• Gain a better understanding of people in other roles and develop a more supportive working environment.
• Engage with new colleagues, who bring their own unique background and talents.
• Ensuring ongoing attention to your own career development.

Why be a mentee, and have a mentor?

For mentees, having a mentor can help you to improve your professional development and career opportunities. You’ll develop strengths, identify areas for improvement, and overcome challenges.

You'll be supported to identify gaps in your knowledge, recognise how you can achieve your career aspirations, and learn from your experienced College mentor.

As a mentee, this ‘match’ via our My Mentoring platform is an important one. It will allow a supportive, open and honest relationship to develop; one that will help you tackle individual issues you may be having, as well as help you focus on, and achieve, longer term goals.

Key benefits for mentees

• Develop a relationship with a mentor who will support and challenge you.
• Improve your ability to reflect on your practice.
• Having a trusted mentor to help you to set your own aims and goals to work towards.
• Support to monitor and review your progress towards achieving your goals and staying on track.
• Improve your self-confidence, ensuring a more self-assured approach to your work.
• Enhance your problem-solving skills, enabling you to tackle issues more effectively.

Join My Mentoring

Start today by creating your profile and searching for a match that suits you.

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If you have any questions about My Mentoring, or would like to discuss any aspect of this programme, please email: mentorship@rcpsg.ac.uk.