Why mentoring often fails

Many organisations know that mentoring matters but struggle to get it right. The common pitfalls?

  • Lack of clarity about goals and outcomes
  • Unclear structure or matching processes
  • Low mentor or mentee engagement
  • Poor monitoring or feedback loops
  • No time or internal know-how to do it well

This course was created to change that.

What you'll learn

This self-paced, on-demand course walks you through the exact process we use to design effective mentoring programmes for leading organisations across the globe. By the end, you'll know how to:

  • Define the purpose and outcomes of your programme

  • Choose the right structure and format for your programme

  • Recruit, prepare and match participants effectively

  • Set expectations and keep engagement high

  • Build in feedback, learning and evaluation

  • Avoid the most common design and delivery mistakes

What's included

  • Self-paced learning, structure for action

    7 practical modules guiding you through every stage of a mentoring programme, from purpose and structure to delivery and evaluation. Includes video lessons, case studies and real-world examples.

  • Tools you can actually use

    Downloadable templates, checklists and guides covering matching, onboarding, communication, timelines, feedback and more. Built from 15+ years of experience designing mentoring programmes worldwide.

  • Designed by experts, trusted by organisations globally

    This course distils what we’ve learned supporting 3,000+ mentors, mentees and programme leads in 25+ countries. Learn the same frameworks we've used for foundations, corporates and ecosystem builders.

Who it's for

This course is for you if you're:

  • Designing or running a mentoring programme within your organisation

  • Supporting entrepreneurs, employees or leaders through mentoring

  • Part of a funding, HR, L&D, programme or ecosystem support team

  • Wanting to strengthen the structure, sustainability and impact of your mentoring offer

What our participants are saying

“REMP was the only course I found that offered practical, actionable guidance to make our programme better. Learning from others and gaining structure transformed how we run our programme.”

Fatima Gigante, Programme Coordinator, Coalition Wild

“I gained a deeper understanding of what mentoring is despite doing it for years. Anyone intending to run a mentoring programme should sign up for this course.”

Eric Mwangi Kariuki - HiiL Innovation Hub - East Africa

“I wouldn’t have thought that The Human Edge (formerly Mowgli Mentoring) REMP training would bring us so quickly to a solid draft of our own mentoring programme!”

Leonie Kraut - EuroNatur

“This programme is absolutely ground breaking and a must attend if you want to design a robust mentoring programme.”

Martin Kibisu - Sinapis - Kenya

“This was an eye-opening experience into the thought process behind creating the right circumstances for delivering meaningful mentoring programmes within one’s workplace and beyond!”

James Gabarretta - Nature Trust, FEE Malta

“The REMP course brought the structure and clarity we needed to enhance our mentoring programme. Our mentors and mentees are now more engaged, and the quality of relationships has significantly improved.”

Yvonne Akorfa Hormenoo, Human Capital Services Lead, PFS

“The REMP course completely changed the way we approach mentoring. We moved from a one-way training model to a truly engaging mentoring experience.”

Maryam Lawan Gwadabe, Founder, Blue Sapphire Hub

“The REMP course gave us the structure and clarity we needed to launch a successful mentoring programme. It allowed us to start quickly, avoid common mistakes and ensure our mentoring initiative provided real value to entrepreneurs.”

Rodrigue Anani, Programme Director, MBC Africa

“We haven’t actually seen an organisation like yours dedicated to mentoring before. It’s as if the knowledge of mentoring is assumed to be innate or inherited. I haven’t seen any other programme addressing mentoring so specifically and deeply like REMP.”

Mohamed Elberbawi, Athar Accelerator, Egypt

Course Syllabus

    1. Welcome to the Running Effective Mentoring Programmes course

    2. Course logistics

    3. Before we start, share what you hope to gain from this course?

    4. Introduction to the 7 Steps of an effective mentoring programme

    5. Before you begin the course, please complete the REMP Baseline Form

    1. What's your experience with designing mentoring programmes?

    2. What mentoring is and why planning matters

    3. How mentoring strengthens wider initiatives

    4. Why organisations set up mentoring programmes?

    5. Clarifying your programme focus and intended outcomes

    6. What's the objective of your mentoring programme?

    7. Designing your programme structure

    8. Identifying your programme participants

    9. Engaging stakeholders and securing alignment

    10. Case studies: mentoring in action

    11. Design challenge – Claire at REMIX

    12. Roles of mentors and mentees

    13. Bringing it all together in a programme design and structure

    14. The programme manager’s role across the mentoring journey

    15. Anticipating challenges with the Problem Tree Model

    16. Need help with planning your mentoring programme?

    17. Additional resources

    18. Review and share: what are your key learnings about planning your mentoring programme?

    1. Why thoughtful mentee recruitment and preparation matter

    2. How mentees join your programme: pathways and motivation

    3. Understanding mentee readiness and setting expectations

    4. Recruitment: ask yourself these questions

    5. Defining your mentee selection criteria

    6. Designing your mentee recruitment journey

    7. Promoting your mentoring programme

    8. Developing a mentee recruitment flyer

    9. Designing an effective application and selection process

    10. What to look out for when selecting mentees

    11. Understanding mentee readiness for change

    12. The mindset continuum

    13. Preparing your mentees for mentoring

    14. Case studies – mentee recruitment challenges

    15. Bringing your mentee recruitment approach together

    16. Need support with recruiting, selecting and preparing your mentees?

    17. Additional resources

    18. Reflect and share: what are your key learnings about mentee recruitment and training?

    1. Why mentor recruitment and training matter

    2. What makes an effective mentor

    3. Defining your mentor criteria

    4. Building the right mentor profile

    5. Designing your mentor pool

    6. Promoting your mentoring programme

    7. Developing a mentor recruitment flyer

    8. Finding and attracting mentors

    9. Motivating and retaining your mentors

    10. What challenges could you have when recruiting mentors?

    11. Potential challenges you may face when recruiting mentors

    12. Selecting Your Mentors

    13. Onboarding your mentors

    14. Training your mentors

    15. Need support with recruiting and training your mentors?

    16. Additional resources

    17. Reflect and share: what are your key learnings about mentor recruitment and training?

    1. Why matching matters

    2. Defining your matching philosophy

    3. Designing your matching process

    4. Reflect and share: what is the primary goal of your matching process?

    5. The matching journey: from design to review

    6. How to match mentors and mentees effectively

    7. Matching criteria: what to consider

    8. What the research says about matching

    9. The role of chemistry and human connection in matching

    10. Matching approaches: ways to put matching into action

    11. Reviewing and rematching relationships

    12. Launching your matches

    13. Need support with mentor-mentee matching?

    14. Additional Resources

    15. Reflect and share: what are your key learnings about mentor-mentee matching?

    1. Why supporting mentoring relationships matters

    2. Understanding the mentoring relationship journey

    3. Your role in the rapport-building phase

    4. Setting up mentoring agreements

    5. Reflect and share: what should Programme Managers do to support mentoring relationships?

    6. The importance of boundaries - a case study

    7. Creating a safe learning environment

    8. Building trust and peak rapport

    9. Rapport-building tool: the Personal Timeline

    10. Rapport-building tool: The Wheel of Life

    11. Moving from connection to momentum

    12. Need support with supporting your mentoring relationships?

    13. Additional Resources:

    14. Reflect and share: what are your key learnings about how to support mentoring relationships?

About this course

  • 120 lessons
  • On demand: sign up and start when you’re ready
  • 14 to 16 hours of guided learning (excluding your own reflective work)
  • 2 hours of video content

Your hosts and instructors

Nadine Asmar

Impact Leadership Facilitator, Coach & Mentor​

Nadine is a resilient Impact leadership facilitator and coach with an international experience of more than 20 years in business strategy, human capital development and entrepreneurship. Today, as a catalyst & enabler of impact leaders, she strives to bring a renewed clarity to their purpose so to unlock their potential in alignment with their mind, heart and will. She co-creates nurturing and safe environment for individuals to grow in self-awareness, feel supported and learn from the collective intelligence and shared experiences.​
Nadine has joined The Human Edge back in 2010 as a mentee on one of the programmes, followed by becoming a mentor. Since then, she have been co-designing and leading on mentoring programs across MENA and sub-Saharan Africa.

Read more: linkedin.com/in/nadine-asmar​

Richard Bellars

Leadership Facilitator, Coach & Mentor​

Richard brings his devotion as a facilitator, coach and mentor to supporting the shift to regenerative leadership. Working with individuals and small teams, he challenges and encourages them to embrace future thinking in daily life, to be and act with a heart-centred openness to listen to and learn from each other. Richard first joined Mowgli Mentoring (as was), The Human Edge in 2010 as a mentor and then as a facilitator. Ever since, he has co-designed and lead on mentoring and leadership programmes across MENA and sub-Saharan Africa, and he continues to volunteer as a mentor. Richard’s career background includes business process re-engineering in more than 15 European businesses. Richard is a graduate (BA) in Modern Languages and is a trained Mighty Heart facilitator. He is a board advisor to Unifying Fields Foundation and also a trustee for the London Sports Trust.


Read more: linkedin.com/in/richardbellars

Saida Haddad

Facilitator and Trainer

As a senior international development specialist, passionate about creating sustainable change and impact, who has personally experienced the impact of mentoring, ​Saida has over 14 years of experience in International Development with a particular focus on entrepreneurship, economic and institutional development, and holds a Master’s degree in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. ​

Read more: linkedin.com/in/saida-haddad

Our available formats​

We also offer bulk prices for your teams. Contact us at [email protected] to know more.

  • £1,399.00

    £1,399.00Running Effective Mentoring Programmes (REMP)

    Learn the essentials

    Best for: Individuals who want to master the fundamentals of designing effective mentoring programmes.

    Includes:

    • Access to the Running Effective Mentoring Programmes (REMP) Online course for 6 months
    • 1:1 Ask the Experts session for personal guidance
    • Certificate of completion

    Outcome: Gain the tools, frameworks and confidence to design a mentoring programme that delivers results.
    Enrol Now

  • £1,879.00

    £1,879.00Running Effective Mentoring Programmes (REMP)

    Learn, apply and refine

    Best for: Programme managers who want to go beyond the theory and get hands-on support to apply what they’ve learned within their organisation.

    Includes everything in Bronze, plus:

    • Programme Manager Assessment for 1 person to measure readiness and skills
    • Mentoring Plan Review (1x) with our team within 3 months post-course, to refine your programme

    Outcome: Build a measurable, scalable mentoring culture with readiness assessments and access to advanced training for your wider team.
    Enrol Now

  • £3,879.00

    £3,879.00Running Effective Mentoring Programmes (REMP)

    Learn, measure and scale

    Best for: Organisations ready to integrate mentoring across teams and measure impact.

    Includes everything in Silver, plus:

    • Mentee Readiness Assessment for up to 5 mentees (valid up to 6 months post-course)
    • Mentor Readiness Assessment for up to 5 mentors (valid up to 6 months post-course)
    • Special offer: build mentoring capability and save:
    • 15% off our Mentor Training Programme (Mentoring Skills and Practice) – save up to £1,500 for groups of 20 mentors
    • 15% off our Mentee preparation Programme (Make the Most of Mentoring) – save up to £450 for groups of 20 mentees

    Outcome: Build a measurable, scalable mentoring culture with readiness assessments and access to advanced training for your wider team.
    Enrol Now

FAQ

  • What is the time commitment of the course?

    This course should take you about 14 hours of guided learning - excluding your own reflective work.

  • How do I enrol on the course?

    Choose the course pack you want to enrol to and then click “Enrol Now.” From there, you will be prompted to a check out page to purchase the course. Once the purchase is made, you will get access to the course.

  • Who should do this course?

    This course is for anyone responsible for designing or managing a mentoring programme, whether you’re in HR, L&D, a foundation, an incubator or a support organisation. You don’t need prior experience, just the drive to make mentoring work better.

  • Will I get a certificate?

    Yes! You will receive a Completion Certificate at the end of the course.

  • I am evaluating this course for our team. Who can I speak with to learn more?

    In addition to offering individuals the opportunity to sign up for the course, we can deliver this course in a variety of ways to meet your organisational needs.

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