Mentoring three local association staff: our experiences with being integrative and sometimes innovative

Abstract

We report our experiences with an association of local service providers as we under took mentoring, capability development and cultural transformation (mentoring for short) of their three senior staff in their project facilitation skills, on top of their existing very good policy, management and project management skills. The aim of our intervention was to extend the driving and the success of their business strategy. Most, if not all, of the separate component parts that we use to be integrative in how we do our work in mentoring the three staff are well proven (not new). But we do claim that at least one way in which we combine the separate component parts, is in fact innovative. Specifically, the way we combine separate parts to make the link between inputs and outcomes achieved. The experiences reported are those relevant to the Systems Conference. Experiences related to other aspects of our work, are reported elsewhere.