Barlow Robbins LLP provides a mentoring scheme for trainees. This scheme aims to support and encourage trainees to manage their own learning in order to maximise their potential, develop their skills and improve their performance.
What We Expect From Trainees:
- Confidentiality.
- To make a commitment to the programme.
- To be open and frank with their mentor.
- To discuss expectations at the outset and review progress.
- To take responsibility for their own development and decisions.
- To consider different perspectives.
What We Expect From Mentors
- Confidentiality.
- To make a commitment to the programme.
- Not to be directive and to provide an informal support system and encouragement.
- To discuss expectations at the outset and review progress.
- To be non-judgmental, neutral and objective.
- Not to assess or appraise the trainee's performance.
What Will It Involve
- Allotting mentors to individual trainees, ideally with the mentor having no line responsibility or little line responsibility wherever possible.
- Mentor will be allotted to an individual trainee for the duration of their training contract.
- To have an introductory meeting/ice breaker session for the mentor and trainee to meet.
- Thereafter to have further meetings and contact as agreed with the trainee.
- Review session between mentor and trainee at the end of the training contract.
- Periodic scheme review sessions for the mentor group.
Trainees and mentors are required to complete a confidential scheme feedback questionnaire for the project co-ordinator at the end of the training contract.
