The period for the 2024/25 Mentoring and Development Programme is 3 April 2024 – 31 March 2025.
Mentees and Mentors must be a member of the PMI throughout the duration of the programme.
To apply to become mentee, please click here.
To apply to become a mentor, please click here.
Benefits of joining
For mentees
- Chance to talk to someone who is not your boss about your work, career aspirations and personal development
- Advice on developing strengths and improving weaknesses
- The opportunity to develop new skills and knowledge
- Guidance on professional development and career enhancement
- Formal recognition of programme participation through a certificate of completion*
- Automatic membership of TILM
- Quarterly Edge Journal delivered to your door
- Relevant and current research updates
- The opportunity to contribute to articles, webinars or podcasts
*Levels relate to qualifications on the regulated qualification framework (RQF). The MyLeadership programme is not a qualification therefore does not have a level, but it aligns to a professional membership grade of Associate with the ILM, which has broad equivalency across levels 3 to 5.
For mentors
- Recognition as a subject matter expert and leader
- Extension of your continuing professional development
- Development of your leadership style, listening and support skills
Information for mentees
How to register
Once you have been accepted on to the programme, you will be contacted with instructions on how to proceed. You will also become a student member of the Institute of Leadership and Management (TILM) and will be sent details to log in to their online portal. There is a wealth of resources on the TILM portal to help you through the programme. Mentees must be a member of the PMI throughout the duration of the programme.
Programme structure
The PMI will assign you a mentor based on your profile. You and your mentor can agree to meet at a frequency of your choice during the 12-month programme, but we ask that meetings take place at least every two months. As well as meeting with your mentor, you will be required to complete the TILM MyLeadership Programme. You must complete a minimum of 10 components, including the self-awareness component and a minimum of 1 other component per dimension.
Mentors will also be able to opt in to complete the TILM My Leadership programme. Mentors who opt in must complete a minimum of 6 components, including the self-awareness module and a minimum of 1 other component per dimension.
Participants will have access to TILM’s full suite of online resources for the duration of the programme and for 12 months after completion. The online materials and content enable individuals to download the information (Leadership Essential booklets, video, articles or focused 30-minute webinars) in their own time, at their pace and in a mode that suits them best. At the end of the programme all mentees will receive a certificate of completion and automatic upgrade to professional Membership.
Information for mentors
Our Mentoring and Development programme is designed to support both mentors and mentees in achieving their professional development aims. Mentoring was traditionally considered as the passing on of knowledge from a more experienced peer to a less experienced one, but it is now recognised that both parties should obtain significant benefit from the relationship.
Mentors will be preferably be a Fellow or Associate member of the PMI but all mentors must be able to demonstrate significant mentoring or leadership experience.
Programme structure
Mentors will be required to mentor one mentee throughout the duration of the programme.
The PMI will assign you a mentee based on your profile. You and your mentee can agree to meet at a frequency of your choice, but we ask that meetings take place at least every two months.
Mentees will be required to complete the Institute of Leadership and Management programme alongside their meetings with mentors. Mentees’ engagement will be monitored by the PMI.
Last update: 18 March 2024