Motivation in the Digital Environment

The ultimate aim of the course is to provide adult educators with the necessary motivational resources to adapt more easily and effectively in the digital environment. Specifically, the course aims to:

• Raise awareness among adult educators about the risks and challenges encountered in the digital environment in relation to the protection of youngsters in e-mentoring.
• Encourage e-mentors to make the best possible use of motivational techniques to support young mentees in becoming more autonomous.
• Provide detailed resources and training to e-mentors on the most important self-determination skills.
• Emphasise the importance of self-esteem techniques that e-mentors need to employ to meet the needs of young mentees with low levels of self-esteem.
• Raise awareness of the importance of active listening and provide specific instructions that e-mentors can use to improve their active listening skills.

Elaborate on the day-to-day distractions that potentially disturb constructive communication between e-mentors and mentees.

Upon the completion of this course, adult educators will be able to:

• Understand the variety of advantages and disadvantages of the new forms of communication and mentoring – e-mentoring,
• Identify, assess, and manage the challenges that the digital environment implies for young mentees,
• Recognise the factors that act against and demotivate young mentees to engage in an e-mentoring process,
• Get sufficient knowledge of the most important self-determination skills and apply them during the consultation process with young mentees,
• Be aware of and use appropriate motivational and self-esteem techniques to help young mentees to become more autonomous and self-sufficient,
• Fully comprehend the importance of active listening in mentoring in the digital environment,
• Familiarise yourself with the best practices that enhance and maintain trustful relationships and apply them during consultations with young mentees,
• Listen actively to what mentees seeking employment have to say during consultations, taking into consideration their needs, feelings, emotions, intentions, problems, goals, and individual situations and environments.
• Be aware of the distractions that may occur in an online consultation process that potentially undermine mentoring.