infoDev Incubator Manager Training Program
“Implementing a Mentoring Program”

Duration: 8 hours
Date/time: 24 October, 2011 – Monday - 09:00-13:00
Porto Alegre, Brazil
Instructors: Jill Sawers and Manuel Bello
e-mail: jsawers@worldbank.org ; mjbello@gmail.com

Introduction
infoDev and ANPROTEC have a long standing partnership that was prominently showcased through infoDev's 3rd Global Forum on Innovation & Entrepreneurship, hosted by ANPROTEC in Florianopolis in 2009. infoDev's training modules were piloted at this event and joint efforts to facilitate capacity building for incubator managers continues: two of infoDev's training menu modules will be made available to business incubators from Latin America within the framework of the XXI Brazilian National Science Parks and Business Incubator Seminar.

Course content
This module provides a thorough understanding of the mentoring process and its purposes. It highlights the differences between mentoring, counseling, coaching and training; where to find mentors; and measuring progress.

Part 1 discusses the differences between mentoring, counseling, coaching and training;  as well as the different perspectives of the business incubator, the mentor, and the mentee and their reasons for engagement.

The second part of the module focuses on how to implement a mentoring program, covering topics such as: planning a mentoring program, how to find mentors, screening mentors, orienting mentors and mentees, matching mentors and mentees, monitoring the process, measuring its success and anticipating what can go wrong.

The part 1 provides existing and future incubator managers – and potential mentors – with an understanding of the mentoring process and its purposes from three perspectives: that of the business incubator, the mentor, and the mentee.