• Duration: Two-day intensive face-to-face course.

• Format: Interactive sessions combining real-world scenarios, case studies, and practical exercises.

• Tailored Focus: Content can be adapted to your organisation’s mentoring and leadership needs.

• Location: Delivered in-person at your organisation's premises, a preferred venue, or a location arranged by ETHICLEAD.

• Facilitators: Led by ETHICLEAD’s experienced leadership experts.

• Outcomes: Participants leave with an actionable mentoring plan and measurable leadership development goals.

By the end of the Advanced Mentoring Skills Course, participants will be able to:

1. Define and Apply Advanced Mentoring Principles 
   Understand the core functions of mentoring and how to structure effective mentoring relationships.
2. Demonstrate Leadership Presence in Mentoring
   Utilise the 4 C’s of Leadership Presence to enhance credibility, influence, and connection with mentees.
3. Master Self-Regulation in Challenging Situations
   Develop strategies for maintaining control, emotional intelligence, and composure when faced with difficult mentoring scenarios.
4. Distinguish Between Advice-Giving and Experience-Sharing 
   Recognise when to share experiences versus when to guide mentees through questioning and reflection.
5. Leverage Strategic Questioning Techniques  
   Apply advanced questioning models such as open vs. closed questions, tie-down questions, alternate choice questions, and Echidna questions.
6. Empower Mentees to Think and Act Independently
   Use mentoring techniques that build belief, strengthen accountability, and create a culture of self-reliance.
7. Handle Difficult Conversations with Confidence 
   Navigate sensitive discussions around performance, conflict, and resistance while maintaining trust and respect.
8. Create a Productive and Ethical Mentoring Culture  
   Understand how to uphold ethical standards, promote learning over judgment, and build a psychologically safe environment.
9. Develop and Measure Mentoring Success
   Utilise Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to track the effectiveness of mentoring efforts and measure progress.
10. Strengthen Personal Leadership and Influence  
    Understand the role of ego, fear, and comfort zones in mentoring and how to guide mentees through discomfort toward growth.
11. Apply Practical Mentoring Scenarios and Roleplays 
    Engage in real-world case studies and structured activities to apply mentoring skills in diverse workplace settings.
12. Establish a Clear Mentoring Roadmap for Ongoing Development  
    Develop a structured, actionable mentoring plan tailored to individual and organisational needs.

1. What are facilitated strategy workshops?
Facilitated strategy workshops are structured, expert-led sessions that help leadership teams move from strategic intent to clear, aligned, and executable strategy. Rather than focusing on discussion alone, these workshops use disciplined frameworks to prioritise decisions, manage risk, and establish accountability for delivery.

2. Who are these strategy workshops designed for?
These workshops are designed for CEOs, executive teams, school principals, and senior leaders responsible for setting and delivering strategy. They are particularly valuable where alignment is required across leadership teams and where strategy must be clearly understood and governed by boards or governing bodies.

3. How are ETHICLEAD’s strategy workshops different from traditional strategic planning sessions?
Traditional strategic planning often produces documents. ETHICLEAD’s facilitated strategy workshops focus on decision discipline, leadership alignment, and execution, ensuring strategy is actionable, owned, and governable rather than theoretical.

4. What outcomes can organisations expect from facilitated strategy workshops?
Organisations typically achieve greater strategic clarity, stronger leadership alignment, clearer priorities, and improved accountability for execution. Boards benefit from clear, defensible strategy outputs that support endorsement, governance, and oversight.

5. Do you support presenting strategy outcomes to boards or governing bodies?
Yes. ETHICLEAD supports leaders to translate workshop outcomes into board-ready strategy, helping ensure strategic direction is understood, endorsed, and governed, reducing resistance and accelerating approval.

6. How long do the facilitated strategy workshops run?
The workshops are delivered through a structured five-day process, designed to allow leaders to test assumptions, assess risk, and build commitment to execution over time.

7. Are the workshops tailored to each organisation?
Yes. Every facilitated strategy workshop is customised to the organisation’s context, operating environment, risks, and strategic challenges. There is no generic or off-the-shelf approach.

• Two-Day Advanced Mentoring Program - An intensive, face-to-face program designed to build mentoring confidence, presence, and discipline.

• Ethical Mentoring Frameworks - Practical application of ethical leadership principles to mentoring relationships and conversations.

• High-Trust Mentoring Environments - Developing confidentiality, psychological safety, and professional boundaries.

• Real-World Mentoring Scenarios - Practice with difficult conversations, accountability challenges, and performance-related mentoring.

• Organisational Mentoring Capability - Focused on mentoring as a system that reinforces leadership standards across the organisations.

Participants develop the confidence and discipline to mentor others effectively, manage complex mentoring conversations, and reinforce ethical leadership standards through trusted relationships.

Organisations benefit from stronger leadership maturity, increased trust, improved accountability, and mentoring practices that sustain leadership culture over time.

ETHICLEAD is such a professional organisation. Steve is always willing to help with his clear and constructive advice. The 15 Disciplines are logical and clear, providing solid foundations and guidance for developing leadership skills as well as guiding already well developed leaders. Being part of the programs that are run by ETHICLEAD has built my confidence, ability and effectiveness. I highly recommend them to individuals and to companies. I look forward to being part of ETHICLEAD programs in the future.

Peter Macdonald – Director Of Teaching And Learning Innovation, St Peters Lutheran College