The Perth Mentoring Program 

As a mentor you will experience these life and work benefits:

• Noticeable improvements in your own mental health and a stronger connection with society.
• Positively impacting on the lives of others.
• Improvements in softer skills such as active listening and how to give advice rather than answers.
• Exposure to new ways of thinking or learning a new skill, area, trend or technology.
• Opportunity to work with someone in a different industry and/or different generation.
• Increased self confidence through reaffirming abilities.
• Recognition of your intellectual capital.

For more in-depth look at these benefits please visit our blog on the benefits of being a mentor.

It’s free for all mentors,

To reward your altruistic decision, we give you.

• full access to our online training portal.
• membership to the NLM community.
• mentor certification.

Mentors who sign up to the mentoring program do it through altruism.

Altruism - doing things simply out of a desire to help, not because you feel obligated to out of duty, loyalty, or other reasons.

The benefit the mentor gets from doing this is huge and range from the increased happiness and satisfaction you get from helping others through to learning new skills, technology, trends or industries from the mentee. Once you try mentoring, you will be hooked and it’s not uncommon that your mentoring meetings become the highlight of your month.

We offer several different mentoring certification level dependant on your experience of mentoring others.

And they are all free to you.

Level 1 - Ready to Mentor. This is issued when the mentor undertakes our online training and completes our mentor quiz. It demonstrates that the mentor has a good understanding of what mentoring is, what it is not and key skills to be a good mentor.

Level 2 - Skilled Mentor. This is when a mentor has successfully mentored someone for several months. This demonstrates that the mentor has put those learned skills to use... and learned more mentoring skills in the process. 

Level 3 - Advanced Mentor. This is when a mentor has successfully mentored at least two people, each for several months. The mentor has now experienced two different personalities and would have needed to refine their approach accordingly to ensure they are giving value to each mentee.

Level 4 - Master Mentor. This is the top level. A mentor receives this when they have mentored at least four people with one of these people being in a different industry. This demonstrates that they have worked with a range of personalities, each with their own traits and goals. It also demonstrates that they can mentor people outside their core industry knowledge.

You can learn more about the mentor certification scheme here.

We recommend 2 meetings in the first month, then 1 meeting for every other month.

The first meeting in the month should be getting to know your mentor/mentee and discussing and agreeing boundaries and goals.

The second meeting in the month should be your first proper mentoring session.

Each mentoring meeting should be 90 minutes long. 30 minutes is too short. You can sometimes complete a session in 60 minutes but you do not want to be in the position that an important discussion gets curtailed because you ran out of time.

So plan for 90 minutes per month.

The duration of your mentoring relationship is up to you and your mentee. There is no time limits with the Perth Mentoring Program.

Some mentoring relationships naturally finish up after 6 months while others continue on for decades. It all depends on if you are your mentee are still getting value from the meetings.

On average a mentoring relationship lasts about 1 year.

The mentor training will take about 1 hour to complete and will give you enough information to ensure you understand your role, know what to expect and get the most from mentoring.

There is also a simple quiz to help reinforce the learnings. We want to ensure that every mentor completes to ensure a level of quality for all the mentees.

As a mentor you are in a high position with the mentee. The Mentoring Code of Conduct is to make sure you are aware of what is expected of you and the boundaries of your role as a mentor. Trust us, the Code of Conduct is there to help you.

You can access the mentor code of conduct here. 

Yes you can and we encourage it.  You will need to register as a mentee separately

Please note you will need to pay the mentee matchmaking fee to access this service.

We offer a 50% discount to mentors who also sign up as a mentee.