Professional Development Program

1. Ms Kylie Prince MA Org Psych [Monash]
The Collective Leadership Organisation
Professional Development
Mentoring Program
about your growth

2. What is PD Mentoring?
A Professional Development mentoring relationship:
Is a vibrant flexible relationship in which an experienced behavioural
professional (Mentor) relates with and acts as a guide, role model,
trainer, and teaches KSAO’s and behavioural capabilities to someone
(Mentee) wanting professional development; sharing current best
practice technology.
Mentoring includes:
• Providing guidance and support in a reciprocal relationship;
• Sharing of KSAO’s enabling others to achieve; and
• Projection and transference significantly allows the growth and
development to naturally occur.

3. Mentoring Benefits
The mentoring relationship may be considered as an dual
dimensioned learning process for professionals wanting
to develop competency, including such benefits as;
Social Integration
Knowledge &
Information
sharing
Teaching / learning
critical skills
Building strength
in capabilities
Clarity of goals and
vision
E-technology
options for web
based
communication
Transitional
current best
practice KSAO’s
Experienced
practitioners
providing feedback
to build confidence
Understanding
professional
behaviours with
bigger picture

4. Adult Learning Principles
Adults learn through
experience,
therefore
mentoring works
through
developing
awareness of the
adult learning
process.
Mentoring
Concrete
Experience
Reflective
Observation
Abstract
Conceptualisation
Active
Experimentation

5. Mentoring by Behavioural Professionals
Mentoring is important to;
• Develop your professional competence in a changing world;
• Develop current best practice cross-functional awareness;
• Develop your best potential to help your clients build their
best potential.
Mentoring offers assisted personal and
professional support and development –
humans are the relating species.

6. Mentoring Development
• Research supports positive outcomes for
Mentoring Programs that include:
• Increased personal growth and development;
• Increased professional growth and
development;
• Extending beyond limits and scope;
• Transference of experience and best practice;
• Facilitates a learning and development culture.

7. Mentoring Programs
• Assist in providing structure to the mentoring
relationship, ensuring equality.
• Learning goals and expectations are appropriately
set and provide relevant tools to assist mentors and
mentees with appropriate KSAO’s and capabilities.
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8. Mentoring Early Career
• Effective mentoring programs develop through building
bridges with university training programs and through
professional alliance with your organisation; and
• Such programs provide a safe supportive system for Early
Career Professionals to learn, discuss and evaluate difficult
behavioural situations with an experienced practitioner,
either confidentially or in group context.
Clarity of purpose matters for providing Early Career Professionals
the starting direction for their future careers. This clarity bridges
and aligns the expectations gained through training and the
service provided to business and organisations.

9. Mentoring Experienced Career
• We develop mentoring programs to suit changing career demands
of a changing world;
• Technology is constantly forcing us to change the way we work
and we need to adapt; and
• Such programs provide a safe transition for Experienced Career
Professionals to adapt, learn, discuss and evaluate technological
behavioural situations with an expert behavioural practitioner,
either confidentially or in group context.
Clarity of purpose matters for facilitating Experienced Career
Professionals with strategies to adapt their careers securely.
Clarity bridges and aligns transitioning through and adapting to
business and organisational changes in direction.

10. Programs include
• Mentee training;
• Introduction;
• Develop learning goals;
• Negotiate expectations;
• Contract agreement;
• Relationship development;
• Working to goals;
• Monitor progress;
• Track process;
•Finalise procedure;
•Evaluate the process;
•Acknowledge achievements; and
•Renegotiate contract .

11. Capability Examples
• Commercial Acumen;
• Strategic Perspective;
• Innovative Thinking;
• Problem Solving;
• Driving Performance;
• Managing Change;
• Developing Capability;
• Communicating Effectively;
• Working Collaboratively;
• Results Orientation;
•Professional Integrity;
•Customer Focus;
•Engage Others;
•Think Clearly;
•Master Oneself; and
•Lead & Inspire .

12. Questions?
Ms Kylie Prince MA Org Psych [Monash]
Organisational Psychology
+61 432 485 427
www.TCLO.biz | collective.leader@gmail.com
Registered Psychologist #PSY0001128531
Australia Health Practitioner Regulation Agency [AHPRA]
Psychology Board of Australia [PBA]