There is an increasing need to balance more traditional 'knowledge transfer' with an empowerment approach to mentoring.

Alongside training for mentors, it's crucial to also prepare mentees to fully engage in the process. This article looks at effective training for mentees, and explores how to support them to get the most out of a partnership.

Reverse mentoring in HE flips the traditional model bringing more junior staff (often from underrepresented groups) to mentor more senior staff or leaders. Hugely powerful as a lever for change, it's important to do it right. Here's an introduction, and some mistakes to avoid.

Often perceived as a “soft” intervention, the Return on Investment (ROI) of mentoring programmes for academic and professional services staff is well-evidenced — both in quantitative metrics and qualitative outcomes.

There may come a time when it becomes necessary to stop or change a mentoring relationship. This requires tact, empathy, and clear communication to maintain respect and preserve the possibility of future interactions. This article explores strategies for sensitively informing a mentor that you want to 'break up'.

Mentoring programmes are great ways to foster professional development, engage employees, and pass on knowledge. However, the success of mentoring hinges on careful planning and implementation. This article explores critical mistakes to avoid when setting up a mentoring programme, drawing insights from academic research and industry best practices.

If you're new to coaching, what should you expect from a 'contracting' meeting? Here's a rough guide that should take away some of the nerves!

How do you get the most of that 'first' meeting with a mentor - here are some tips.

Mentoring should be a conversation of equals. What do you do, then when mentees or mentors adopt other roles - and come across needing or offering rescue?

Although we talk about skills that mentors and mentees develop in their conversations, they (and the business) could potentially get even more from being part of a thriving mentoring community. Here's how to start developing that community.

Research staff can really benefit from having a mentor, but many don't know where to start to get one. This post takes you through some of the practicalities.

This post explores the differences between Coaching and Mentoring, and identifies some areas where they overlap.

In this blog you will learn about one of our intern's experiences with coaching.

A mentoring program can be an important intervention in the lives of those with learning differences, and can help to create relational resources that can ease some of the challenges that may come with having a learning difference. In this blog, we will outline some of the possibilities that are created when applying mentoring programmes to helping those with learning differences.

Read this blog to find out how an effective mentoring or coaching relationship can transform your career

A blog about how the MBTI can help you to build effective mentoring and coaching relationships.

Here are just a few ways that mentoring programs, especially remote programs facilitated by SUMAC, can create a more inclusive and productive environment for international students.

Do you want 2024 to be a year of self-fulfillment, achievement and success in your career? In this blog I present 3 important questions to ask yourself. The answers to these questions hold the key to unlock the best year you could wish for in your work life

Developing a mentoring relationship with SUMAC Mentoring Software can be critical in fighting burnout through re-centering goals through relational understanding.

Read this blog to find out about the power of giving and receiving constructive feedback.

This blog outlines the myriad benefits peer-to-peer mentoring can offer to organisations and individuals

This article provides a summary of the differences between traditional mentoring and relational mentoring approaches.

Here, we’ve curated some tips for students starting a new semester of university and outlined some ways that a mentoring programme with SUMAC can contribute to each

This blog will highlight just a few of the ways in which mentoring can be used to reveal skills, interests, and priorities and therefore perhaps push a career path in a new direction.

Find out how a mentoring programme such as SUMAC can help the young people in your organisation.

A global mentoring programme to help women scholars in theology.

Learn about the impact of SUMAC's mentoring scheme on Carey Baptist College's Theological Anthropology, Fundamental Need and Human Flourishing: A Women Scholar's Project, in partnership with Logia International.

Discover the ways in which imposter syndrome may be affecting your organisation and how mentoring may be able to help combat it.

Learn the benefits of bridging the generational gap through mentoring!

Social capital theory is a lens through which we can view the benefits of mentoring relationships for both mentors and mentees. This blog will provide a brief introduction into the world of social capital theory and its impact on mentoring relationships.

Want to learn more about the future of mentoring? Learn about the ways mentoring has evolved and how it can be tailored to the specific needs of YOUR organization.

Interested in how you can improve equality, diversity and inclusion in your workplace? Read on to find out what mentoring can do for you!

Organisational change can lead to real or perceived loss which can be a source of dissatisfaction and demotivation. Mentoring as part of a change project can help individuals to work through this and to regain their motivation, to move forward through the change process in a more positive way.

Curious about how mentoring can help you achieve your goals for the upcoming year? Here we break down how effective mentoring can help you work towards some common New Year's Resolutions.

Dr Diane Munday is the Scheme Coordinator for the Teaching Research & Academic Mentoring Scheme (TRAMS) and is based within Organisational & Staff Development Services at the University of St Andrews. In today’s post, Diane shares some of her experiences with us and offers some excellent advice for running large cross-institutional mentoring schemes.

Wondering what you should you consider before setting up your mentoring scheme? You’ve come to the right place.

Matching for mentoring partnerships - it's not rocket science, but it might be chemistry

Getting back to basics - what is the definition of mentoring and why is it important for your organisation?

Before you start planning and design your mentoring programme, take a look at these five simple principles for success