I am a Watch Manger at Crewe Community Fire Station in Cheshire. I have spent 3 years in Operational Training Group and I am competent in an Operational and training role. I now need to mentor my team and Fire cadets within the organisation. There are also new firefighters that I will mentor, our phase two firefighters.
Mentoring is one of the important and essential skills for leadership and management. First of all we need to define what Mentoring is?
According to Wikipedia mentoring definition is
“Mentoring is a process for the informal transmission of knowledge, social capital, and the psychosocial support perceived by the recipient as relevant to work, career, or professional …show more content…
Likes to use journals and brainstorming. Lectures are helpful if they provide expert explanations and analysis.
Theorist - Prefer to think problems through in a step-by-step manner. Likes lectures, analogies, systems, case studies, models, and readings. Talking with experts is normally not helpful.
Pragmatist - Prefers to apply new learning’s to actual practice to see if they work. Likes laboratories, field work, and observations. Likes feedback, coaching, and obvious links between the task-on-hand and a problem.
Activist - Prefers the challenges of new experiences, involvement with others, assimilation and role-playing. Likes anything new, problem solving, and small group …show more content…
A SWOT analysis can be carried out for a product, place, industry or person. It involves specifying the objective of the business venture or project and identifying the internal and external factors that are favourable and unfavourable to achieve that objective. The technique is credited to Albert Humphrey, who led a convention at the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) in the 1960s and 1970s using data from Fortune 500 companies. The degree to which the internal environment of the firm matches with the external environment is expressed by the concept of strategic fit.
Setting the objective should be done after the SWOT analysis has been performed. This would allow achievable goals or objectives to be set for the organization.
Strengths: characteristics of the business or project that give it an advantage over others.
Weaknesses: characteristics that place the business or project at a disadvantage relative to others
Opportunities: elements that the project could exploit to its