New IMechE Mentor Forum jets off to a flying start!
22 Apr 2021
Institution launches new mentor forum.
Mentoring is an effective tool for supporting graduates with identifying objectives, overcoming professional challenges, visualising and achieving goals. With the restrictions imposed by the current pandemic, many Mentors and Developing Engineers are missing out on the networking opportunities previously created by both the Institution and their employers. To provide support to Mentors, Sandra Mulligan, the IMechE BDM for Scotland has set up a new Mentor Forum, which got off to a great start on March 16.
What is the Mentor Forum?
An opportunity for MPDS and SRS Mentors, Scheme Administrators and stakeholders to get together and share ideas, best practice and achieve consistency with reviewing and scoring the work of Developing Engineers. Being an online event, it allows allow staff from a wide variety of companies and industry sectors to interact and engage with each other, supporting and building the IMechE mentoring community on a national scale. It’s a 1 hour meeting which occurs on a monthly basis at lunchtime. After each meeting, Sandra circulates a set of the slides that were used and a summary of the Q&A session, allowing Mentors to build up a portfolio of resources to add to their ‘Mentoring Toolkits’.