The questions below are intended to help you think through what you bring to the mentoring relationship in terms of experience, skills and energy; and what you will need to work on to help your mentor best help you. Each section explores a different area of mentee competence. Score 1 (not like me) to 5...
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Coaching requires skills, such as listening, questioning and giving feedback, but all of these should already be developed to some extent in line manager coaches and in coaches more generally. What makes them effective is the coaching mindset, and this we can summarise as the three Cs: Caring: Co-learning: Creativity: © David Clutterbuck,...
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While many of the basic skills of being a mentor come naturally, you can learn to become an even better mentor, if you have put thought and planning into it. And all of the skills you enhance through practice as a mentor will have application in your role as a manager. A planned approach to...
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Coaching sometimes seems like Keats’s rainbow—the more we try to define it, dissect it, classify it, and demystify it, the more we diminish it and lose its essence. Often coaching literature represents attempts to confine coaching within the partisan wrappings of a particular school, philosophy, or approach. Often the motivation seems to be less about...
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The power of hope in helping people achieve their goals is remarkable. Research shows that more than half the variance in performance by female athletes is attributable to the quality of hope they exhibit 1. People who have strong reserves of hope tend to be more proactive about their health and are more resilient in (more…)
Use this simple diagnostic tool to assess how much fun you have at work. Tick all those that apply with a Yes. Scoring: For very tick or Yes, count them up: 14 and above: Your work environment plays to your energies and interests, gives you the support you need and generally feels like a great (more…)
This simple reflective guide and tool can be used by teams to reflect on the seven types of trust required in teams. Usually this exercise takes 60 minutes to complete. Purpose: To think about how they will build high quality of trust in the mentoring relationship Process: Introduce the exercise by explaining that one of (more…)
You might find our Planning for Team Resilience blog a useful introduction to building resilience within a team. The Team Resilience Questionnaire provides a practical way to assess team resilience. Use it to establish both an average team score and areas where there is maximum variation in team members’ responses. This will allow you to (more…)
In general, teams tend to assume a much greater level of goal alignment than is actually the case. High goal alignment happens when everyone is fully agreed about the priorities of what they are trying to achieve and why; and at the same time, fully agreed about how they will go about making the goals (more…)
It’s not uncommon for a mentor to become frustrated, when they have deep conversations with a mentee, then nothing happens as a result. Rather than see this as a failure on their own part, or a lack of commitment on the part of the mentee, the mentor should seek to understand the dynamics that underpin...
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