The 7 dimensions of security mentoring

The 7 dimensions of security mentoring

Duration: 1 days / 6 hours
Delivery method: Online/ In-company training
Target Audience: This course is designed for Security Managers, Security Supervisors, and Security Team Leaders who want to improve their leadership skills and keep their teams motivated, engaged, and committed.
Cost: Available upon application
Language: English
Course code: DSM-1

Introduction

In just one day, you’ll explore a complete spectrum of mentoring styles, from traditional one-on-one relationships to modern approaches like reverse, flash, and virtual mentoring. Through interactive sessions, real-world examples, and hands-on activities, you’ll gain the confidence and clarity to implement or enhance mentoring in any personal or professional context.

  • ✅ Discover the full range: Learn 7+ mentoring models—including group, peer, and skills-based mentoring—with practical insights on when and how to use each.

  • 🔄 Bridge generations & cultures: Embrace modern mentoring formats like reverse mentoring to connect with diverse teams and emerging talent.

  • ⚡ Get practical, fast: No fluff—just tools, frameworks, templates, and roleplay scenarios you can use immediately.

  • 🌐 Future-proof your strategy: Explore how virtual mentoring can elevate connection and development in hybrid and remote environments.

  • 🤝 Build a mentoring culture: Whether you’re launching a new program or levelling up an existing one, this course equips you with everything you need to make mentoring meaningful, measurable, and scalable.

What you will learn

By the end of this one-day course, you’ll walk away with a clear understanding of seven distinct types of mentoring—from traditional one-on-one relationships to dynamic models like reverse, peer, and virtual mentoring.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Identify the right mentoring type for different goals and contexts

  • Structure effective mentoring relationships across all formats

  • Apply practical tools, templates, and conversation frameworks

  • Design or enhance mentoring programs in your organization

  • Foster a culture of growth, inclusion, and knowledge-sharing

Whether you’re a mentor, mentee, or program designer, this course gives you everything you need to create powerful, purposeful mentoring experiences.

Potential business benefits, the why

  • Accelerates employee growth and readiness for new roles
  • Increases engagement and loyalty through personal investment
  • Reduces turnover by offering career progression and support
  • Captures and passes on institutional knowledge
  • Prepares future leaders with hands-on guidance
  • Bridges skill gaps across departments and generations
  • Breaks down silos and fosters cross-functional relationships
  • Encourages a feedback-rich, learning-oriented environment
  • Promotes empathy, inclusion, and mutual understanding
  • Encourages fresh thinking through peer and reverse mentoring
  • Creates space for experimentation and new perspectives
  • Builds a more adaptive, resilient workforce
  • Cost-effective way to upskill staff without external training
  • Flexible formats (e.g., group or flash mentoring) can reach more people
  • Promotes continuous, just-in-time learning

    • The difference between coaching and mentoring 

    Coaching is a goal-oriented, performance-driven process focused on enhancing an individual’s skills, behaviours, and capabilities in a specific area. It centres around short-term objectives and employs a structured approach to address immediate challenges and opportunities.

    1. Immediate Impact: Coaching delivers rapid results by addressing real-time challenges and offering actionable solutions.
    2. Skill Refinement: It hones specific skills, helping employees improve performance and achieve targeted goals.
    3. Accountability: Coaches establish clear expectations and hold employees accountable for their progress.
    4. Adaptability: Coaching can be tailored to individual needs, ensuring personalized development plans.
    1. Limited Scope: Coaching may overlook long-term development and fail to address broader career aspirations.
    2. Narrow Focus: Its short-term orientation might neglect holistic skill development.
    3. Time-Intensive: Frequent coaching sessions can strain resources and managerial time.
    1. Performance Optimization: Effective coaching can optimize team performance and drive higher productivity.
    2. Leadership Growth: Developing coaching skills among leaders can foster a culture of continuous improvement.
    3. Employee Engagement: Personalized coaching demonstrates a commitment to employee growth and enhances engagement.
    1. Misalignment: Ineffective coaching strategies might lead to confusion and misalignment within the team.
    2. Overdependence: Excessive coaching can discourage independent thinking and problem-solving.
    3. Burnout: The demand for coaching can overwhelm both coaches and employees if not managed well.

    Mentoring is a relationship-driven process focused on holistic professional and personal development. It emphasizes long-term growth and is often centred around providing guidance, wisdom, and insights based on the mentor’s experience

    1. Holistic Development: Mentoring addresses a wide range of skills, knowledge, and perspectives.
    2. Career Advancement: It provides guidance on navigating the complex landscape of career progression.
    3. Wisdom Transfer: Mentors share invaluable insights, contributing to better decision-making and problem-solving.
    4. Loyalty and Commitment: Mentorship fosters a sense of loyalty and commitment between mentors and mentees.
    1. Time-Intensive: Effective mentoring demands substantial time commitments from both parties.
    2. Dependency: A mentor's absence or disengagement can disrupt the mentee's growth journey.
    3. Subjectivity: Mentorship effectiveness can vary based on the mentor's biases and limitations.
    1. Knowledge Transfer: Successful mentorship can lead to the preservation and dissemination of institutional knowledge.
    2. Succession Planning: Mentoring grooms future leaders, supporting seamless succession within the organization.
    3. Culture Enhancement: A mentorship culture can foster a sense of belonging and shared values.
    1. Inadequate Pairing: Poor mentor-mentee matching can result in ineffective or unproductive relationships.
    2. Resistance to Change: Some employees may resist external guidance, hindering the mentorship process.
    3. Exclusivity: Limited access to mentors can exclude certain employees from growth opportunities.

    At a glance; Mentor/ Coach/ Facilitator 

      Aspect  Mentor  Coach  Facilitator
     Focus Career and personal development  Performance improvement or goal attainment  Group learning, collaboration, process
     Relationship Long-term, informal or structured Short- to medium-term, formal Neutral, not ongoing with individuals
     Approach Share experience and guidance Ask questions to unlock potential Guide group process without giving answers
     Expertise needed Subject or industry experience Coaching training and questioning skills Group dynamics, communication skills
     Typical style  Advising, sharing, supporting Challenging, reflective, goal-oriented Neutral, inclusive, process-driven
     Goal  Develop the person over time Achieve a specific personal/professional goal Enable a group to reach shared outcomes

    The 7 types of mentoring covered in the course

  • Deep, personalized development over time
  • Strong mentor-mentee bond based on trust
  • Ideal for career growth, leadership development, and goal setting
  • Junior employees mentor senior leaders
  • Fosters innovation, digital fluency, and cultural awareness
  • Breaks down generational and hierarchical barriers
  • Develop key professional skills faster
  • Gain access to valuable networks
  • Develop key professional skills faster
  • Short, focused sessions—often one-off
  • Quick knowledge transfer on specific topics
  • Great for networking, onboarding, or event-based learning
  • Equal-level colleagues support and guide each other
  • Promotes collaboration, trust, and shared accountability
  • Ideal for onboarding, team-building, and learning communities
  • One mentor guiding multiple mentees at once
  • Encourages peer learning and diverse perspectives
  • Scalable and time-efficient for mentors
  • Focused on building specific technical or soft skills
  • Shorter-term, project- or task-oriented
  • Aligns closely with performance and business needs

    • “We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.” – Archilochus.

    In-house courses

    Whist Zoom is a default setting for the above course, online delivery, this course can be delivered via Microsoft Teams or Webex, with some modifications.

    Bespoken inhouse delivery: No matter how good a chief is, a person will modify the plate in front of them and may even leave some items on the side 🥦.

    The above course can be modified to better fit, the appetite of your organisation

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