Why do coaches need supervision?

Coaching Supervision is a process for helping coaches reflect on their practice so that they grow in competence and ensure client safety. It draws on the world of counselling, where supervisors provide three important roles: Normative – the supervisor accepts (or more accurately shares with the supervisee) responsibility for ensuring that the supervisee’s work is (more…)

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How to be a great mentoring programme coordinator

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…)

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How to be a mentor to mentors

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...

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Judgementoring – a behaviour to avoid

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...

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Mentoring roundtables

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...

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Multi country mentoring programmes – cultural and logistics issues

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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Taking care of the mentee’s line manager

The mentee’s line manager is a key stakeholder in the mentoring relationship. The relationship between the mentee and their line manager will be one of the topics of conversation in mentoring sessions. The manager also holds primary responsibility for the mentee’s development – yet they may have little idea of what mentee and mentor are...

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