Mentoring—getting started

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Produced in partnership with Beth Pipe FCIPD of OnLive Learning
Practice notes

Mentoring—getting started

Copyright © 2025 LexisNexis

Produced in partnership with Beth Pipe FCIPD of OnLive Learning

Practice notes
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Learning from more experienced colleagues is one of the best ways to develop skills and careers. Mentors can help you make sense of complex issues that you are likely to face as your career develops and being a mentor can help you develop leadership and people skills.

Mentoring is also a great way to combine personal development and knowledge management. With mentoring you can manage and share the existing knowledge within the organisation in a cost-effective and mutually beneficially manner. With external mentoring schemes, you can share knowledge and gain new ideas and perspectives from different industries.

When beginning a mentoring relationship it is important to consider the structure of mentoring, from the overall mentoring cycle to the structure of an individual mentoring session. This Practice Note provides guidance on:

  1. •

    what mentoring is

  2. •

    the benefits of mentoring for mentors, mentees and organisations

  3. •

    the mentoring cycle

  4. •

    who does what

  5. •

    the structure of mentoring meetings

  6. •

    accommodating different learning styles

What is mentoring?

The word ‘mentor’ comes from Greek methodology and means trusted

Beth Pipe
Beth Pipe, FCIPD

Learning & Development Specialist/Director, OnLive Learning

Beth is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (FCIPD) and has spent over 25 years specialising in Learning and Development. During that time she has worked across a broad variety of different industries and has, for the past 15 years, worked closely with a number of well known law firms; this has involved putting in to place systems and structures to encourage, enable and track the effectiveness of learning activities. 

Adept at face to face course delivery, and always enjoying excellent feedback, Beth is also accomplished at online delivery and created OnLive Learning in response to the challenges presented by the 2020 Covid-19 restrictions.

Beth has written extensively for LexisNexis on subjects such as Performance Management, Managing Change and Stress Management.

Away from her training delivery she is a published author writing about local history, hiking, wildlife and the outdoors and is currently working on her eleventh book. She is also an experienced radio presenter hosting two shows each week on Lake District Radio.

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