The pivotal role of mentoring and coaching in health services

The health sector has a long history of involvement with mentoring. The first supported mentoring programmes in Europe took place in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), aimed at supporting the integration and retention of young graduate recruits. The NHS and the Health sector continue to pioneer good practice. For example: The international medical charity...

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Coaching and mentoring people on the autistic spectrum

Autism is a badly misunderstood condition. While extreme autism may be disabling, it’s a mistake to think of all people on the autistic spectrum as disadvantaged. In reality, high functioning autistic people have significant advantages over people in general. They are better able to absorb and process large amounts of information, more focused and often...

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What to do when the mentee has no clear career goals?

It makes mentoring a lot easier, when the mentee knows exactly where they want to go in their career. The trouble is, many mentees – particularly those in the early stages of their careers – have only a general sense of direction (if that). They may see many different possibilities and may or may not...

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Does fear of opening up something you can’t handle hold you back from asking tough questions?

Even very experienced coaches and mentors admit to worrying that sometimes they are not taking the conversation deep enough, or giving enough challenge to the coachee or mentee. They feel held back by the concern that they may open up the emotional floodgates on an issue that requires professional therapeutic intervention. The resulting “timid” conversation...

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Helping a coachee or mentee manage uncertainty

Much as humans generally crave certainty, we have to live with constant uncertainty. In organizations, uncertain comes in two kinds: prediction uncertainty and decision uncertainty. Prediction uncertainty comes from operating in a VUCA environment, where we know that “best guesses” may turn out badly wrong, because we don’t have enough information, because of constant change...

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What if the client worries too much?

Like most human traits, worrying in the normal course of events has benefits, because it raises our awareness of real or potential threats. Compulsive worrying, however, can cause unnecessary stress and have a serious negative effect on performance. At extreme levels, where the person is, for example, unable to make choices or leave the house,...

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Using the Seven Conversations in Supervision

While most textbooks refer to the coaching conversation as if it were a single, discrete dialogue, in practice both coach and client carry out reflective dialogues in their minds before, during and after the spoken conversation. Each of these additional dialogues has an important role to play in the nature and the effectiveness of the coaching conversation. Within...

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12 habits of a Toxic Mentee

The following are all examples of behaviours by mentees gathered over many workshops, where participants in mentoring have shared their best and worst experiences. These below are the top ten worst. As a mentee ask yourself: Could I be guilty of any of these? Copyright – David Clutterbuck

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Disability mentoring

One of my most emotive recollections of mentoring is taking part in a Civil Service programme for disabled staff. One of the participants was a Thalidomide victim. Only partially sighted, with only rudimentary fingers at the end of stumps of arms, he turned the pages of the workshop manual with his tongue. And he fiercely...

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