Working coaches, mentors, supervisors; mid-career
In theory, the boss should be delighted that someone else is sharing the responsibility for helping one of their direct reports to manage their career self-management and personal development. In practice, they may have reservations about how much time away from the job will be involved, what mentor and mentee will say about him or...
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These three concepts from psychotherapy and counselling are useful for the coach or mentor to have at the back of their mind, particularly when addressing behavioural or motivational issues. Transference happens when we unconsciously and irrationally attribute attitudes, motivations or other characteristics to someone else, because we create an association between them and someone in...
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It often happens that people bring goals to coaching and mentoring, which they feel obliged to accept. Because these goals are externally generated (for example, from the expectations of their line manager, or their spouse), their commitment is likely to be much lower than if the goal were generated internally, meeting their own needs. So...
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One of the recognised dangers of executive coaching / mentoring, however it is sourced, is that the coachee / mentee can come to depend on the coach / mentor to do their thinking for them, rather than develop the skills and habits of thinking for themselves. Dependency can take many forms, including intellectual (solving problems...
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If you are not able to join a mentoring programme in your own organisation or profession, you can still find a mentor informally. The starting point is to think through what you want a mentor for. Once you are clear about this, you can move on to thinking about what sort of person would make...
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In essence, all coaching and mentoring are about helping people achieve change. When change is incremental, planned and about progress towards a desirable objective, and the coachee/ mentee feels reasonably in control and not under threat, then coaching or mentoring task is relatively straightforward. But when change is unexpected, threatening or involves significant perceived loss,...
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Building rapport is the first step in creating a successful relationship. Investing time in the early meetings to get to know each other, establish common ground, share personal stories and start to think how you will work together is time well spent. Establishing rapport is essential in, for example, mentoring coaching relationships, because it allows...
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Career pathing is a useful process for helping someone learn from their previous career moves and apply that learning to future career choices. Its about moving from allowing careers broadly happen to you, to taking greater control of your career; about creating choices rather than waiting for them to come to you. Some of the...
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Career self-management involves making deliberate choices concerning current and future career prospects. We all influenced by internal and external factors which can impact on the quality of our thinking and clarity of purpose. There are a number of tools we can use to help us understand our motivations and career choices, to make better informed (more…)
We all have concerns in our lives; concerns could be around home life, health, finance, family, friends, the environment, violence, oppression, starvation, the environment – the list goes on. We are not always able to influence all of our concerns. So, we have a choice about where we choose to focus our attention, time and...
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