You may well have been mentoring for a while now, even if it wasn't officially called that, or as part of a structured mentoring programme. And if this is your first experience with mentoring, that's ok too!

Every mentoring relationship doesn't necessarily follow the same process but it is useful to zoom out and consider what a well-structured professional mentoring process might look like.

The above model is an attempt to capture some of the complexity that often arises in human interactions and as you begin your work in this Professional Mentoring Programme, you'll begin to understand what terms like 'contracting' or 'chemistry' mean in the mentoring context.

Let's get to work!