Mentoring

LSE has a mentoring scheme for Professional Services Staff. 

As a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome mentors from diverse backgrounds, including people with disabilities to come forward.

If you would like to be assigned a mentor, please complete the Become an LSE Mentee form. Once we have matched you with a mentor, we will be in touch with you to set you up for your intial meeting. 

Similarly if you would like to be a Mentor, please complete Become an LSE Mentor form. Once we've found a mentee for you, we will be in touch with guidance and resources to support your Mentoring journey and match you to your mentee/s.

As a Mentee:

• Gain a better understanding of yourself and achieve your goals more quickly and effectively than working alone.

• Build off of expertise to draw on and expand your network.

As a Mentor:

• An extremely rewarding feeling of giving back to the LSE Community, and introspect on your own skills and career progression.

• A practical way of exercising your own leadership skills.

• Act as an impartial sounding board.

• Create valuable space and time for you to ‘stand back’ and review where you are now, where you want to get to, and how best to get there.

• Contribute viewpoints, advice, and information from their own knowledge, experience and expertise.

• Although mentoring is not counselling or therapy, it can assist you in achieveing changes and goals that enhance both your professional and personal life.

1:1 Mentoring

A Bespoke 1:1 Mentoring partnership would involve a Mentor having developmental conversations with the Mentee that focus on the mentee's overarching career goals, objectives and aspirations. This type of Mentoring can be structured (with concrete goals and actions to work towards) or introspective and conversational. 

Mentoring as part of a Learning/Development Journey

Mentoring can provide information and the right guidance to Mentees undertaking training and development (e.g., internal and external programmes).

It can widen support networks, provide motivation and improve confidence. With Developmental mentoring, an experienced mentor helps the mentee to develop their strengths and potential on a learning journey, identify their changing needs, values, aspirations, and what's most important to them as par of their development.

Mentoring as part of the BAME Mentoring Scheme

Mentors and Mentees identifying as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff take part in 1:1 mentoring and mentoring circles (i.e., group mentoring) as part of the BAME mentoring scheme that runs once each academic year.

Whether you're new to mentoring, want a refresher, or simply would like some guidance on how to go about the mentoring journey, have a look at our Guide to Mentoring for Members of Staff