Coaching aims at the personal and professional development of an employee. It works best when it happens in a climate of openness and mutual respect. Our expectations of each other are that: Responsibility for success of coaching is shared between coach and coachee We will agree clear and specific initial goals for coaching, while recognising...
Coaching is arguably the most powerful method of learning at work. Coaching is a key skill for every manager and knowing how to seek and use coaching is a key skill for employees, who wish to become more effective in their current roles and perhaps advance to more senior roles. Here are answers to some...
Coaching can be beneficial at almost any time, but you will find it particularly beneficial when: You are looking to take on a new job role, or have just done so You keep putting off action or decisions that you know you need to get on with You need help with your personal development plan...
Coordinators are the largely unsung heroes of mentoring programmes. They promote the programme to participants and corporate sponsors; to protect it from the destructive forces of sudden economies and changes of management fashion; and to maintain the quality of the programme, often on limited budgets. Great mentoring coordinators always have remarkable reserves of enthusiasm, both (more…)
How to be a mentor to mentors One of the key supports for mentoring programmes is having a cadre of highly experienced mentors, who new mentors can lean on and learn from. In some programmes, these mentors take on much of the burden of new mentor development, shifting the balance from classroom learning towards ad...
The term “judgementoring’ comes from a study of mentoring in the teaching professions, where it was defined as: “a one to one relationship between a relatively inexperienced teacher (the mentee) and a relatively experienced one (the mentor) in which the latter, in revealing too readily and/or too often her/his own judgements on or evaluations of...
Please score each of the statements below from 0 (not like me at all) to 5 (very like me) © David Clutterbuck
Mentoring roundtables are learning and support sessions that promote active and timely sharing of good mentoring practice amongst a peer mentoring group (mentees or mentors). Participation in roundtables encourages benchmarking of progress relative to others in the group. Mentors and mentees report that participation in mentoring roundtables creates great value for them. They find that...
Multi country mentoring programmes – cultural and logistics issues International mentoring programmes are increasingly common as multinational companies attempt to gain greater consistency over the development of their international talent. In some cases, there are multiple local mentoring initiatives within a wider global umbrella programme; in others, usually at a more senior level, mentors and (more…)
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Objectives for mentoring training Mentors At the end of the training, you will have: Mentees At the end of the training, you will have: © David Clutterbuck...