South West HDN Mentoring

Programme 2017-18

Class 1 – Getting to know you

21 November 2017

Curo, Bath

Welcome to Class One

• Introductions and house keeping

• Aims of the session

• How we will work today – roles and ground rules

Mentoring Class One- Getting to know

youObjectives

• To reflect on your current knowledge, skills and experience and those required to

be successful in the future. How to use the programme to develop

• To identity own individual and team strengths and areas for development

• To get to know other mentees, and begin to build your network and support

Activities

• Getting to know each other. Valuing what you bring

• Growing the skills, qualities and characteristics will make you successful in the

changing world of housing

• Belbin team roles

• Taking responsibility and building resilience

• Using peer support to make personal change

• Reflection and PDL update/ planning for class 2

Introductions – getting to know each

other

• Chose a card that reflects something that important to you in

your work/ career

• Introduce yourself to another mentee you don’t know and

explain why you chose that card. How do you apply this in

your role and how would you like to use the programme to

explore, share or develop it further

• Describe something you offer and something would like to

learn more about from others on the programme

• Swop roles

• Prepare to introduce each other to the group

Coffee

Identifying and developing key skills

• Strategic thinking

• analysis

• problem solving

• communications

• leadership

• influencing

What does this look like?

How can I develop these?

Personal Reflection

• What values and skills do I bring to my current role and

future?

• How can I use these most effectively now in my work/ team?

• How can I communicate these in my 1:1s, PDRs and CV?

• What skills would I like to develop during this programme

and how (add to your goals)?

• How will I know I am being successful and provide evidence?

Lunch

Working in teams

Belbin Group Types

The Belbin Team Role analysis is used

extensively to create winning teams for new

Projects

However:

• Few teams can choose their members

• Members of teams are determined by outside factors

i.e. management structure

How then can we obtain a balanced team?

Personal development

The second issue is personal development!

• How do you refine your team role to become more

effective individually and as a team member?

• Many team members wish to develop their role and

develop a ‘back up’ role to enhance their own

personal influence and effectiveness in a team

WAIL !

Workers - Implementers

Team Workers

Analysts - Monitor Evaluators

Completer Finishers

Ideas People - Plants

Resource Investigators

Leaders - Co-ordinators

Shapers

Specialist

Behaviours …?

Using the ‘strengths’, you can quickly identify the

actions that are a key feature of the role and utilise

them to effect

Using the ‘allowable weaknesses’ you can be mindful

about the likely difficulties of the role and develop your

own team role positively

The results

Personal reflection

• Review the descriptions of the Belbin team roles and

in particular your natural preference roles and your

least preferred types.

• For each identify the 2 - 3 characteristics that you

consider are most and least like you in both the

strengths and allowable weaknesses.

The results

In pairs

• Discuss your natural preference roles and your least

preferred types and how you can use this

information to enhance your skills at team work.

• What is the impact of both of these roles/types?

• Reflect on teams at work, can you see the different roles

in teams? Are there any missing or more dominant?

What might be the implication of this?

Tea

Taking control and

building resilience

How do I manage myself?

LOCUS OF CONTROL

External Locus Internal Locus

of control of control

Take little or no responsibility for

their behaviour

Blame others for what is wrong in

their life

Tend not to do things that will change

their life for the better

Emphasis is to avoid coming out of

their personal comfort zones

When things go wrong they often do

not learn from their mistakes

Tend to rely on other people’s

approval to make them feel good

Have weak boundaries and strong

barriers

Lack the ability to be able to inner

reflect

Take responsibility for their actions

Do things that will change their

situation for the better

Emphasis is on striving for personal

and professional achievement

Work hard to develop their

knowledge, skills and abilities

When things go wrong they are

inquisitive and try to work out why

things turned out the way they did

Tend not to blame others

Have a more participative management

style

Tend not to rely on other peoples

evaluation for their self-esteem

Strong boundaries and weak barriers in

most areas

Have the ability to inner reflect

What is within my circle of

influence?

Using peer support to make

personal change

The Learning Cycle (Kolb, Honey and Mumford)

Do it!

Have an experience

What?

What happened? What were the results

So What?

What do these results imply? How

did I influence the outcome?

Now what?

What will I do

differently next time?

The Activist

The Pragmatist

The Theorist

The Reflector

Keeping a learning log

Experience Review Conclude Actions

What happened What was the

result/ impact

What did I learn What will I do

Insights into Action – 20 mins

• Thinking of what you have learnt today about:– The skills you wish to learn

– How you work in a team

– Your locus of control & how resilient you are

– Your preferred learning styles

• In pairs have a discussion about:– What insights you have

gained today

– How you will use these to get the most from the programme

– What challenges you may face

– How you can support each other to achieve

**Be ready to feedback to the group on the

actions you have agreed**

Review of the day

& Next steps

Planning for Workshop 2

Tuesday 23rd January 2018 :

12.30 Lunch and Site visit: Arrive Sovereign Housing, XXXXX

4.00 Check in to local hotels

6.30 Evening Meal at XXXX

Wednesday 24th January 2018:

8.45 - 4.00 Workshop 2 at Sovereign Housing

Lunch will be provided on both days

Review and what next

• Did you get what you expected from the day?

• What will you do next at work?

• How can your mentor help you - planning your next

mentoring session?

• Completing your PDL

• Preparing for Class 2 – receiving your PPA report

Julie Summerhayes Julie.Summerhayes@knightstone.co.uk

01934 526099

Jen Trew Jennifer.Trew@knightstone.co.uk

01934 526063

Nikki Forward N.Forward@oceanhousing.com

0791 754 8383

Clare Kirk Clare.Kirk@sovereign.org.uk

01635 277403

Donna Warr Donna.Warr@curo-group.co.uk

01225 366130

www.housingdiversitynetwork.co.uk

mentoring@housingdiversitynetwork.co.uk

01225 36 6130