Personal Sponsorship

Trial Session run by WiN Highland – Currently places are FULL however may be rolled out to wider group in future

This three-hour session, ‘Personal Sponsorship’, has been created in order to help delegates build their awareness of what sponsorship is and to increase their skills and confidence in building the necessary relationships and behaviours.

It is also designed to help understand how to develop personal competencies and how not to develop unhealthy dependencies for the effective sponsorship relationship. Develop objective measures to track effectiveness, develop awareness and responsibility and boost morale and transform attitudes and behaviours into positive results.

Key topics 　

• The elements of effective sponsorship, coaching, core skills, competencies
• How to use existing strengths, effect change using Appreciative Inquiry
• Different models, the difference between sponsorship, coaching and mentoring
• Practise Peer Coaching, develop alternative viewpoints
• Breaking down the stages of the sponsorship process, looking at a model in detail from engagement to follow up
• Resistance, identifying barriers and resistors, how to match and balance different dynamics
• Feedback, to give effective feedback in a way that encourages positive change
• Resilience, putting into action in the workplace, controlling the work life balance, developing own mental wellbeing
• Reframing experiences, to move through experiences and not let them own you