Mentoring Matters

Mentoring is a cost-effective means of developing people within a business with great benefits in building supportive teams, creating leadership pathways and retaining top staff. Additionally, mentoring doesn’t only benefit mentees, but those doing the mentoring as well.

Why mentoring?

  • Increase the retention of both mentors and mentees within a business

  • Increase the learning & development of junior staff

  • Aid the career progression of both mentors and mentees

  • Multiply the effectiveness of traditional training programs

  • Improve team morale

So, how do you implement a mentoring program?

To begin, you need to establish how you would:

  • Motivate people to be involved
  • communicate expectations
  • define and train key skills for mentors and mentees
  • define boundaries, and
  • structure mentoring relationships?

How would you set mentors and mentees up for success within these relationships?

Our program is streamlined to support you through each of the steps for an efficient and effective program, with lasting benefits.

Peopleconnexion’s Mentoring Matters program is design to not only train mentors and mentees for mentoring relationships, but catalyse the relationships to fast track their development and help them get off to the best possible start.

Mentoring Blog: Our expert advice, opinions, experience

Mentoring Matters: PX rolls out new Mentoring program!

June 22, 2022

Peopleconnexion Training is incredibly excited to have officially launched our 2022 Mentoring Matters program. Mentoring is a special program close to Peopleconnexion’s heart, inherited from our Founder/CEO, Kristine’s own passion for mentoring.  As a mentor and career coach to many young female professionals, Kristine has dedicated her life’s work to professional development. In partnership with …

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3 Tips for Building a Successful Mentoring Relationship

March 23, 2022

3 Tips for Building a Successful Mentoring Relationship Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen and a push in the right direction – John C. Crosby If there’s one red-hot skill popping up in job descriptions across the world, it’s mentoring. From our experience in the recruitment and training arenas, the demand …

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First time mentoring? Here are my 5 tips for becoming a great mentor

February 16, 2022

First time mentoring? Here are my 5 tips for becoming a great mentor I somehow fell into my first mentorship role many years ago.  When I first got started, I had so many doubts, do I have the necessary experience to be taking this role head on? How do balance listening with giving advice? Since …

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Why Coaching and Mentoring Matters: Success Isn’t Accomplished Alone

January 26, 2022

Why Coaching and Mentoring Matters: Success Isn’t Accomplished Alone Successful leaders tend to share one thing in common. When we look at the likes of Richard Branson, Sheryl Sandberg, Jeff Bezos, GM CEO Mary Barra, Bill Gates – there’s a pattern. It isn’t their leadership style, their education or their background. All of these leaders …

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The 7 traits of successful expats in PNG

November 16, 2021

From our professional experience recruiting expats into PNG, it takes a certain kind of person to be successful as an expatriate. At the end of the day,we don’t just look for someone that is a great fit on paper. After placing 50+ expats per year across wide variety of roles and industries in virtually every …

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Someone has asked me to be their mentor. What now?

February 16, 2021

It is both humbling and daunting when someone asks you to be their mentor, however agreeing to take on a mentee shouldn’t be a snap decision. I originally fell into my first mentoring role many years ago, at that time I didn’t understand the importance of mentoring and what a good mentor and mentee relationship …

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Team members

Kristine Berry Managing director

Kristine Berry

Director, Peopleconnexion

Kristine has an Honours degree in Psychology and has been in the professional development industry for over 25 years, and has been a mentor and career coach, and has been part of a variety of charitable programs as well. Kristine's recruitment and leadership experience includes working on large graduate programs, major multi-billion-dollar projects, and with a passion for changing lives, Kristine's passion underpins her client relationships and customer service.

  • BA Psychology Honours
  • Cert IV Train the Trainer
Kristine Berry Managing director

Gary Blair

Principal Consultant - Training and Learning & Development, Peopleconnexion

Gary has over 15 years’ experience in leadership consulting, team leadership and facilitating transformational learning experiences, and holds a Masters in Organisational Leadership. He has worked to develop leadership capability in large and small corporate clients and has had speaking engagements on four continents. His specialities include learning design and facilitation (virtual and face-to-face), culture change projects, mediation and cross-cultural team leadership/group facilitation. Gary is passionate about motivating people to lead and live better than they did yesterday.

  • Masters of Arts (Organisational Leadership)
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Anne Poole

Executive Coaching Consultant - Training and Learning & Development

Anne's effective leadership approach combines practical psychology with “hands-on” business experience gained over 20 years. Her career in Human Resources management provides the natural coaching platform to assist and facilitate others to become high achieving leaders of their teams and organisations. Anne brings over seven years’ experience of working in project driven environments where fluidity and a changing environment was paramount.

  • Master of Human Resource Management
  • Diploma of Business Management
  • Performance Coach and Time Line Practitioner
  • Certified Career Transition Consultant
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Dr. Barbara van Heerden

Executive Coaching Consultant - Training and Learning & Development

Dr. Barbara van Heerden has 25 years managing large programmes, working with multicultural teams to build intercultural competence, resulting in better team cohesion and performance. Completing a Doctorate in Leadership Coaching for Intercultural Competence in 2016, Dr. Barbara is an internationally accredited coach who has worked in 8 different countries.

  • Philosophiae Doctor in Leadership,
    Performance and Change
  • Bachelor of Arts Honours (Psychology)
  • Advanced Certificate in Leadership
  • Master of Arts (Professional Coaching)
  • Enneagram Coach
  • Coaching for Positive Intelligence
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Philip Bradbury

Executive Coaching Consultant - Training and Learning & Development

Philip started his professional coaching and teaching career with a range of business qualifications including a Bachelor of Business studies and an Associate of the Institute of Managers. For the last 30 years, Philip has acquired a range of teaching and personal/spiritual development qualifications which has led him to write 18 books and train in 4 different countries. His great passion is seeing others rise to their mastery.

  • Bachelor of Business Studies
  • Associate of the Institute of Managers
  • Cert in Adult Teaching & Adult Education
  • Cert IV in Teaching and Assessment
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Craig Stuart

Executive Coaching Consultant - Training and Learning & Development, Peopleconnexion

With 16 years of corporate experience and people development, Craig has first-hand experience in leading complex business change and the leadership demands of corporate leadership. His experience ranges from coaching all levels of leadership from those entering a leadership journey for the first time, to middle and senior management in either one-on-one sessions or facilitated team sessions.

Qualifications:
• Bachelor of Business Admin. Honours (IMM)
• Foundations of Executive Coaching (UCT)
• Neuro Leadership Institute (NLI) Brain Based Coach
• Comensa Accredited Coach and Member

As Learning & Development consultants, we are passionate about building competence and developing confidence in people and organisations.

Our team is full of diverse backgrounds, ranging from HR, recruitment, management, coaching, finance and marketing, but we all share one passion: building legacies.

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