MENTORS MASTERCLASS Series

 For Employers and Institutions in the Engineering and Construction Sector (Built Environment)

• Are you an employer of Engineering Graduates and Apprentices in the engineering or construction (built environment) sector?
• Is effective Mentorship a priority to accelerate professional competence and registration of your graduates or members?
• Would transforming engineering managers into great mentors help your organisation avoid the costly, repetitive, and predictable mistakes that are often made?

If so, then join the upcoming MENTORS MASTERCLASS, an exclusive 4-part webinar series tailored for managers, mentors, coaches, supervisors, and HR teams in engineering and construction. Presented by the Knowledge Mentoring Global (KMG) in partnership with the Commonwealth Engineers’ Council (CEC), this program offers immersive, practical mentorship skills crucial for today’s complex industry.
Over 4 sessions, explore foundational and advanced topics in mentoring—from mastering behavioural dynamics and overcoming human factors to developing sustainable, competency-driven mentorship. Plus, gain access to the KMG Mentoring App for 3 additional months, allowing interactive learning and on-the-go support from expert facilitators.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to enhance your mentorship journey, build lasting skills, and contribute to a stronger, more resilient engineering future!

• Dates: 22nd January 2025;  29th Jan; 5th Feb; 12th Feb - 2025
• Time: 1pm-4pm CAT / 11am-2pm GMT
• Investment: $950 for 1.5 CPD Points
• Early Bird discount: Pay $855 if you book before 30th November 2024

Reserve your spots today and develop the mentors the industry needs!

Why Join the Mentors Masterclass?
The Mentors Masterclass is more than just training—it’s a transformative journey designed to elevate mentorship standards in the engineering and construction sectors.
With a rapidly ageing expert workforce in the global engineering and construction sector, the critical engineering skills deficit is now widely acknowledge as posing a serious risk to all infrastructural, climate and sustainability projections worldwide. In fact, some indicators are showing that 40% of the global GDP could be at risk due to the engineering skills crisis and that much of the potential $2.2Tn investment currently on the planning tables for infrastructural projects in Africa will never come to fruition through a lack of registered and experienced local professional engineering capacity. Africa alone is estimated to need 2.5 million new registered professionals by 2040 and the UK is projecting a shortfall of 1 million engineers by 2030.
 
There has never been a more important time to implement structured graduate and apprenticeship mentoring across the local and international engineering and construction sectors (Built Environments) as the hundreds of thousands of collectives hours of human experience and lessons learned in the project design offices and construction sites of the world, need to be transferred as effectively and efficiently as possible from a knowledge-rich but rapidly ageing baby boomer generation, to the next generation in order to save the many billions of dollars that will be wasted through repetitive and predictable human factors.
 
In fact, research indicates that the annual costs of “Human Error” alone when measured as the costs of disputes, claims and extensions of time is now approaching $0.5Tn per year, which does not include the actual costs of the rework or repairs required in terms of manhours, machinery and material costs.
 
It is also evident that many professional bodies and registration boards, and especially those in developing countries, are consistently reporting that either a lack of mentoring, or just a poor quality of mentoring practices, is causing an increase in the number of ill-prepared professional registration applications, which in turn is clogging over-whelmed institutional application windows. This lack of access to quality mentorship is driving frustrated graduates to increasingly rely on the use of AI-enhanced professional registration applications, which is an alarming red flag situation many registration boards are facing.
 
Solution:
In recognising that traditional or generic mentoring cannot cater for the unique nuances and highly stressed environment of the very complex engineering and construction sector, the CEC and KMG have partnered to offer a MENTORS MASTERCLASS series which will equip Mentors with a set of skills, knowledge and behaviours that will transform their mentoring journeys and quality of knowledge sharing into sustainable competencies that will deliver increasing returns on investment year-on-year.
 
Brief insights into content covered over 4 x 3 hour webinars:

• Session 1: Becoming a World Class Mentor: Understanding Mentorship, Building the Relationship, Understanding Behavioural Dynamics, The Cost and Consequences of Human Factors, Non-sense Making and Poor Decisions, Balancing Hard and Soft Factors (Objectives and Emotions), How the Brain Works, Brain-sensitising Learning and Memory Development, Establishing a Structured Mentoring Programme (3-hour online webinar)
• Session 2: Understanding the Professional Environment: Professional Bodies, Registration Boards, Sectoral Institutions – the Processes, Policies, Standards and Forms – the Roles and Responsibilities of Managers, Mentors, Coaches, Supervisors, Referees, HR and L&D Teams. A best practice framework to move beyond minimum compliance. (3-hour online webinar)
• Session 3: The Role of Mentorship In Professional Development: The Career Experience Audit, Training and Experience Summary, Learning Gap Analysis Competency Frameworks, Competence and Commitment, Learning Outcomes, Competency Indicators, Range Statements – gathering and capturing evidence-based learning, understanding the underlying philosophy of demonstrating professional engineering competency, sound engineering judgement and Cause and Effect (3-hour online webinar)
• Session 4: Developing Sustainable Mentorship: Planning for Succes and Sustainability, Developing the Graduate Mentoring Action Plan (G-MAP), Setting Goals, Active Journaling, Presentation Skills and Capturing Insights, Learning Styles and Techniques, the Art of Story Telling and Report Writing, Preparing for Professional Reviews, Experience Appraisals and Panel Interviews, Document Management, Collaborative Mentoring, The KMG Mentors Toolkit, The ROI of Effective Mentoring (3-hour online webinar)

 
The KMG mobile App will be setup and configured to stimulate enhanced experiential learning through group sharing and interaction with the facilitator, before, during and after and for an additional 3 months to ensure the learning is embedded.
 
Company and Institutional courses also available and can be configured as 2 full day online, or 4 half day online sessions

About the Facilitator:
Philip Marsh Pr. Eng; CEng; is the Founder and CEO of Knowledge Mentoring (Global) in the UK and Mentoring 4 Success in South Africa (Philip Marsh LinkedIn Profile) will be delivering 4 stimulating 3-hour webinars on how to develop high impact mentoring skills and sustainable mentoring programmes for Managers, Mentors, Coaches, Supervisors, Referees and HR or L&D Teams.

Philip spent 4 decades in the South African and UK Built Environments, working on projects like Ellis Park Rugby Stadium, ULCO Cement Factor, Lethabo Power Station, before taking up a consulting position at Alan Baxter and Associated in London and then moving to Richard Lees in the Midlands, where he led a team of 65 engineers working on Canary Wharf in London. Philip then partnered with Gang Nail in the UK and started International Truss Systems in 1991 in South Africa. In 1997, Philip founded the KM Institute group and has given 15 years of pro-bono services to the South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) Education Training Panel. In 2015, Philip was given a Global Knowledge Management Leadership award in Mumbai, India, for his concept of “Knowledge Swarms and Experiential Hives” which put forward a model for empowering large groups of graduates in developing countries with world class mentoring support. Through an invitation from the UK Gov. Global Entrepreneur Programme, Philip relocated back to the UK and launched KMG in 2019 to scale a mobile App-enabled candidacy mentoring platform & professional development programme which accelerates the journey to professional competency and registration readiness for young engineers and apprentices. Philip is currently leading multiple large scale engineering graduate mentoring initiatives in Africa, such as the “Women in the Built Environment” (WITEB) initiative, “Women in Water and Sanitation” (WIWAS) Graduate Mentoring Programme and the MASELULEKANE Candidacy Mentoring and Professional Development Programme – all in strategic partnerships with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) as well as SAICE.
Contact Philip at [email protected] to book and find out more information.