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The aim of this research was to throw light on an area of coaching that has not been the subject of any significant investigation before. All the major authorities on team coaching recommend that, unless a team is very small, two coaches should support each other. Among the reasons: one can facilitate while the other...
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It would be easy to conclude, from the vast numbers of research papers and studies on mentoring, that the field is pretty well covered. In practice, that’s far from the truth. It’s noticeable, for example, that there are far more quantitative studies than qualitative. (The opposite is the case for the parallel field of coaching.) (more…)
One of the remarkable aspects of mentoring is how extensively researched the topic has been. However, extensively-researched isn’t the same as well-researched. Having had to trawl through hundreds of papers and a fair pile of dissertations for my own current doctoral research, I soon came to echo the thoughts of an anonymous business school faculty...
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When Kathy Kram carried out her seminal research into mentoring at the beginning of the 1980s, she focused on a small number (22) of informal mentoring relationships, taking place within a specific cultural context – educated North Americans. She identified a number of themes that recurred in these relationships and, as she herself has readily...
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When Kathy Kram carried out her seminal research into mentoring at the beginning of the 1980s, she focused on a small number (22) of informal mentoring relationships, taking place within a specific cultural context – educated North Americans. She identified a number of themes that recurred in these relationships and, as she herself has readily...
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One of the remarkable aspects of mentoring is how extensively researched the topic has been. However, extensively-researched isn’t the same as well-researched. Having had to trawl through hundreds of papers and a fair pile of dissertations for my own current doctoral research, I soon came to echo the thoughts of an anonymous business school faculty...
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One of the most useful studies of mentoring programmes comes from Finkelstein and Poteet (2007), who surveyed the (primarily US) research literature and identified five critical characteristics of effective formal programmes. These were (with some additional context fro other research): Finkelstein, L. M., & Poteet, M. L. (2007). Best practices in formal mentoring programs in...
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