Mentor Training

Mentoring as Peer Support

At Frontline Labs we believe that mentoring – where a more experienced and knowledgeable person supports another on their business journey – is essential for success.

We periodically offer Solution Focused Mentoring programs to equip our course participants with the skills to guide themselves and others through the challenges of entrepreneurship.

Solution Focused Mentoring creates impact by:

  • Talking about resources – not limitations and shortcomings.
  • Exploring possible and preferred futures.
  • Identifying and exploring what is already helping move towards the preferred futures.
  • Having respectful conversations in which all parties are experts in all aspects of their own lives, including those asking for guidance.

Solution Focused Mentoring provides new techniques in mentoring conversations to build resources, capacity, and competence.

It is a flexible and transferable practice that is already used by many practitioners in business and organisations, as well as health, social care, and educational settings.

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Mentor training covers:

  • Having a thorough understanding of the assumptions and values that guide the principles of the Solution Focused Mentoring approach.
  • Developing skills in shifting mentoring conversations from deficit to strengths and solutions.
  • Creating conversations to identify resources and competence.
  • Building a picture of the preferred future from ordinary everyday successes.
  • Understanding how mentoring builds wellbeing.
  • Identifying progress towards the agreed outcomes.
  • Learning techniques and skills in formulating the solution focused mindset and language.
  • Promoting ongoing change between conversations and meetings.
  • Monitoring wellbeing in the mentoring relationship.

Real Stories, Real Impact

  • While I find it relatively straightforward to utilise problem-focused questions, the course highlighted an essential distinction: the language we need to use for solution development differs significantly from that used to diagnose problems. By emphasising a solution-focused approach, we can shift perspective and see outcomes that we were previously blinded to.
    Aaron Haining
    Veteran & Founder of Envicto Coaching
  • In the Business Mentoring Program I learnt to effectively mentor other entrepreneurs. The solution-focused approach taught me how to guide others by amplifying their strengths and setting clear, achievable goals. It was an invaluable experience, equipping me with the tools to support fellow veterans on their entrepreneurial journeys.
    Bianca Sibbald
    Veteran & Founder of Someone I Love is in Defence