What is Speed Mentoring?
Speed Mentoring encounters allow educators to invite employers from their local community into schools to engage with students and answer questions.
Business leaders participate in a series of short, focused conversations about specific career questions and topics. Business leaders meet a limited number of mentees in 10-minute time slots each to provide coaching.
The aim is to introduce young people to a wide range of business leaders, broadening their horizons and encouraging them to aim high.
Speed mentoring should be set up as a student-led, ‘carousel’-style activity, where groups of students move between different business leaders, with pre-prepared quick-fire questions. Each group will talk to a business leader for a short period of time (commonly 5-15 minutes) about their job/career. At the end of the period, they will move on to a further business leader, circulating a number of different volunteers over the duration of the event.