Working coaches, mentors, supervisors; mid-career
Accepting is the ability to allow things to be as they are, to abandon or put in abeyance the desire to change or confront. Accepting others for who they are is important within the context of coaching and mentoring: Mentors and mentees / coaches and coachees need to be able to accept each other; to...
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Accepting is the ability to allow things to be as they are, to abandon or put in abeyance the desire to change or confront. It’s important in coaching and mentoring. Some situations are internally driven – for example, it can be hard to accept with age that you can’t be as active and sporty as...
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Being noticed in a positive way is a vital part of career progress. There are five main ways in which mentors / coaches can help mentees / coachees do this: Track record comes only partly from doing your primary job well. Being noticed is much more closely related to the activities you undertake over and...
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Listening to another person is one of the most powerful things you can do for another person. It shows others that you value and respect their contribution and are willing to give time to help them think. By listening actively you can help grow someone’s confidence and encourage him or her to talk. However, active...
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Studies have shown that overly altruistic motivations for coaching and mentoring tend to lead to more directive, unconsciously manipulative behaviours in the coach/mentor. “I want to put something back” or “I’ve got a lot of experience to share” may be altruistic in intent, but the underlying drivers are much more closely related to less noble...
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Anchoring Anchoring is a technique used to change adapt a stimulus response pattern so that the coachee or mentee is able to either, replace a negative anchor with a positive one; or to enhance a skills by building positive anchors. In other words, it is a simple way to change an unwanted feeling to a...
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When people come to coaching and mentoring, they often do so with goals they have only part thought through. They may also come with goals imposed on them by others. Or they jump at a goal because they want to please the coach or mentor. In these circumstances, it’s important to review with them, just...
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Coaches and mentors need creativity skills for two main reasons. Firstly, they need to have effective ways to help the client overcome “stuckness” — to generate new thinking by proffering new ways of looking at problems and opportunities. Secondly, they need to be creative in their approach to the learning conversation, recognising when experimenting with...
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While some people embrace and thrive on change, others find it threatening. When a coachee or mentee exhibits change resistance, it is typically because of one of the following reasons: The first thing a coach or mentor can do is to help them examine their motivations and help them challenge their assumptions. Change usually brings...
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Sponsors play a special part in the retention and development of talent within organizations and professions. Among the roles of a good sponsor are: Being a sponsor is not the same as being a mentor — indeed the two roles are largely incompatible, for a number of reasons: The two roles overlap particularly in two...
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