About the GPS Catalyst Mentoring: Leader Toolkit training

The GPS Catalyst Mentoring Leader Toolkit is designed to enable GPS leaders and managers to ensure mentoring is intentional, consistent, and driving meaningful development outcomes. While mentors focus on building skills and confidence through direct mentoring relationships, leaders play a critical role in creating the conditions for mentoring success and holding quality and impact standards.

This course provides leaders with clarity on what effective mentoring looks like, how mentoring and coaching work together, and how to support mentors without micromanaging the relationship. Leaders learn how to use structured tools such as mentor and mentee checklists and Kaizo to review mentoring activity, track progress over time, and identify patterns that indicate growth, readiness, or areas requiring additional support.

Through practical guidance and real-world examples, the Leader Toolkit helps managers move beyond encouraging mentoring to actively enabling it. By making mentoring visible and measurable, leaders can ensure mentoring efforts align with development priorities, strengthen team capability, and contribute to sustained growth across GPS.

Learning prerequisites

There are no formal learning prerequisites for this course. Leaders should have an active role managing or supporting mentors and mentees within GPS to fully apply the concepts, tools, and review practices introduced.

Audience

This course is designed for GPS leaders and managers who are responsible for overseeing mentoring activity, supporting mentors, and ensuring mentoring translates into measurable development and readiness across their teams.

Agenda

This course covers key areas including:

• Overview of the GPS Catalyst Mentoring Program and the leader role

• What effective mentoring looks like from a leadership perspective

• Differences between mentoring and coaching and how leaders support both

• The Catalyst program journey and where leaders enable success

• Using mentor and mentee checklists to ensure consistency and quality

• Reviewing mentoring activity and progress using Kaizo

• Supporting mentors through structured mentoring cards

• Making mentoring visible, measurable, and aligned to business goals

Learning objectives

At the end of this course, you should be able to:

• Explain the leader’s role in the GPS Catalyst Mentoring Program

• Identify what effective mentoring looks like and how to reinforce it

• Support mentors in applying mentoring and coaching frameworks

• Use mentoring checklists to guide and evaluate mentoring conversations

• Review mentoring activity, cadence, and progress using Kaizo

• Ensure mentoring efforts are driving meaningful development and readiness across the team