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Work-life balance issues

Achieving work-life balance is vital to individuals, teams and organisations. People feel more fulfilled and better able to perform in roles when they achieve a balance between work and non-work roles. Balancing roles and responsibilities is challenging, particularly in light of the changing nature of employment and the workplace. People face competing demands on time,...

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Working with shame

Shame is a universal experience of mentally healthy people. Defined as “a feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behaviour”, shame tends to have the negative impact that it inhibits learning. Whenever people feel shame, they tend to avoid discussing it with other people and they also try not (more…)

You as a mentee

The questions below are intended to help you think through what you bring to the mentoring relationship in terms of experience, skills and energy; and what you will need to work on to help your mentor best help you. Each section explores a different area of mentee competence. Score 1 (not like me) to 5...

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Your mindset as a coach

Coaching requires skills, such as listening, questioning and giving feedback, but all of these should already be developed to some extent in line manager coaches and in coaches more generally. What makes them effective is the coaching mindset, and this we can summarise as the three Cs: Caring:   Co-learning:   Creativity: © David Clutterbuck,...

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Your personal development plan as a mentor

While many of the basic skills of being a mentor come naturally, you can learn to become an even better mentor, if you have put thought and planning into it. And all of the skills you enhance through practice as a mentor will have application in your role as a manager. A planned approach to (more…)

Coach maturity – an emerging concept

Coaching sometimes seems like Keats’s rainbow—the more we try to define it, dissect it, classify it, and demystify it, the more we diminish it and lose its essence. Often coaching literature represents attempts to confine coaching within the partisan wrappings of a particular school, philosophy, or approach. Often the motivation seems to be less about...

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Hope Theory

The power of hope in helping people achieve their goals is remarkable. Research shows that more than half the variance in performance by female athletes is attributable to the quality of hope they exhibit 1. People who have strong reserves of hope tend to be more proactive about their health and are more resilient in (more…)

Fun at Work Diagnostic

Use this simple diagnostic tool to assess how much fun you have at work. Tick all those that apply with a Yes.  Scoring: For very tick or Yes, count them up:  14 and above:  Your work environment plays to your energies and interests, gives you the support you need and generally feels like a great (more…)

Seven aspects of trust

This simple reflective guide and tool can be used by teams to reflect on the seven types of trust required in teams. Usually this exercise takes 60 minutes to complete. Purpose: To think about how they will build high quality of trust in the mentoring relationship Process: Introduce the exercise by explaining that one of (more…)

Team resilience questionnaire

You might find our Planning for Team Resilience blog a useful introduction to building resilience within a team. The Team Resilience Questionnaire provides a practical way to assess team resilience. Use it to establish both an average team score and areas where there is maximum variation in team members’ responses. This will allow you to (more…)