Eastern Summer School: Mentoring in UNISON branches
This course explains the role and skills mentors need and how they can support new stewards in your branch
13 August 2026, 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
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UNISON Eastern, Higdon House, Kempson Way, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP32 7AR
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IN-PERSON 9.30am – 4.30pm
The aims of this mentoring course are:
- to gain an understanding of what mentoring is;
- to understand the context of a regional or branch strategy on mentoring;
- to develop key mentoring skills, including listening and questioning;
- to develop awareness of the process of developing stewards;
- To agree the scope and boundaries of the role of mentors within the branch (or other group);
On completion of the course, the learner will:
- have a clear idea about the main approaches to mentoring, including traditional and peer mentoring;
- understand how being a mentor will work within their own branch and region;
- have an understanding of some of the key skills a mentor needs, and have practised these;
- have reflected on the stages of development of a new steward in UNISON, and identified key milestones when a mentor might be able to support a new steward;
- be able to identify some of the pitfalls which might arise when introducing a mentoring scheme and have worked out how to tackle these;
- understood and developed a personal and branch protocol for operating as a mentor.
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