PM ADVISORY:

Mentoring!
Developing the next generation of PPM leaders

By Keith Clark
Moorhouse Consulting, UK

It’s all very well investing in training for your project managers (PM) but are their new skills successfully applied in the ‘real world’ of the programmes and projects that they manage? In other words, are you seeing a return on your training investment?

Many companies are looking for new ways to ensure that the knowledge and learning picked up by their PM’s is better used in the business, and forward thinking organisations are turning to one-to-one development approaches such as mentoring, to ensure that not only do they get best value out of their training but to be sure that their best PMs are getting access to deep knowledge and are fully tuned in to the wider PM industry – for the betterment of the business.   

What is mentoring?

A mentor is someone with a wide range of personal and professional skills and experience who acts as coach, counsellor, networker, guardian, according to the needs of their mentee and the maturity of the mentor-mentee relationship.

Contrary to popular belief, good mentors often come from outside your organisation, and not only bring their own experience, knowledge and contacts to the relationship, but also help an essential external perspective and the ability to ‘wire’ their mentees into the external programme and project management (PPM) industry, exposing them to the most relevant tools and techniques, white papers, industry events and case studies.

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About the Author Keith Clark A Principal at 'APM Project Management Company of the Year' Moorhouse Consulting, Keith Clark has many years experience in project and programme management, across both the public and private sectors, and recent project assignments include supporting the turn around of several critical performance improvement programmes at BT.   Before joining Moorhouse, Keith was a Partner at Atos, where he headed up the ongoing development of their programme management capability.   Before moving into the consulting business, he worked in the electronics industry, for multi-national organisations like Hitachi Europe, where he occupied a number of senior management positions.  Keith has a degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from the University of Birmingham. He is an accredited MSP Advanced Practitioner, an accredited PRINCE2 Practitioner and a certified Project Management Institute Project Management Professional (PMP).   For more information or to contact Mr. Clark, visit www.moorhouseconsulting.com