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Coaching and mentoring are both forms of paired support relationships that encourage individuals to develop their skills and knowledge. This topic provides an overview of coaching and mentoring and their benefits. It also includes material designed to support the coaching and mentoring process.

 

Coaching and Mentoring

 

This overview of coaching and mentoring discusses their benefits, the charateristics of a successful coach/mentor and some of the cultural and gender issues involved.

 

Could I Be a Coach or Mentor?

 

Find out with these top tips whether you could be an effective coach or mentor to someone in your team.

 

Top Tips for Being Mentored

 

Following these top tips will help you to ensure your approach to being mentored is effective.

 

Top Tips for Mentoring

 

Following these top tips will help you to conduct a mentoring relationship effectively.

 

Model of Personal Reflective Space

 

An important skill for mentors and coaches is the ability to facilitate reflection and generate personal insight. Here we review Clutterbuck and Meggison’s ‘Model of Personal Reflective Space’, which outlines the stages of the reflection process.

 

David Clutterbuck on Mentoring Skills

 

In this audio interview David Clutterbuck, a recognised expert in the field of mentoring, reveals the skills of a good mentor and shares the secrets of a successful mentoring relationship.

 

Top Tips for Coaching

 

Following these top tips will help you to conduct a coaching relationship effectively.

 

Top Tips for Being Coached

 

Being coached can help you to identify new ways of improving your performance, achieving your objectives and finding solutions to workplace challenges. Following these top tips will help you to ensure your approach to being coached is effective.

 

A Career Coach's View on Coaching

 

In this interview we speak to professional career coach Margaret Middlemiss about the benefits of coaching, and the role career coaching can play in helping individuals achieve their career management objectives. Running time = six minutes.

 

Mentee's Progress Document

 

This template allows you to record your objectives for each mentoring session and the key outcomes of each discussion you have with your mentor.

 

The GROW Model of Coaching

 

This is a simple question-based, four-stage model that will help you to structure your coaching sessions.

 

Using the GROW Model

 

A short interview with professional coach Margaret Middlemiss about the benefits of using the GROW model when conducting a coaching session, and her top tips for best practice.

 

GROW Coaching Session Template

 

A practical framework, based on the GROW model, that you can use during coaching sessions to structure your discussions.

 

Making the Most of Coaching and Mentoring

 

A range of practical tips to help individuals ensure the success of their paired support relationship.

 

Am I an Effective Coach/Mentor?

 

This exercise, suitable for both coaches and mentors, can be used in various ways: as a 360° feedback tool, a training needs analysis or simply as a self-assessment. Allow 45 minutes for completion.

 

Coaching/Mentoring Contract Checklist

 

A simple guide to some of the key points that coaches/mentors and their clients may wish to include in their contract at the start of their relationship.

 

Reviewing Our Coaching/Mentoring Relationship

 

Mentors/coaches and their clients can use this simple checklist as a framework for discussing the progress of their relationship at regular intervals.

 

Coach/Mentor Session Review Form

 

The purpose of this template is twofold: for evaluating the success of a session and for helping you with your continuous personal development as a coach/mentor.

 

Buddying

 

Buddying is a great way of helping new team members to settle into their role. Here’s some information to help you understand what buddying is all about, as well as top tips for both buddies and new team members.