I’ve been shocked this week after some conversations at a conference about the number of organisations who are dismissing mentoring as ‘too labour intensive’, ‘difficult to keep the energy in the programme’ or just plain ‘ineffectual’. Anyone who knows me and understands my passion for mentoring will immediately understand the emotional response this has created. In the seventeen years I have been working designing and developing mentoring programmes, I have found that organisations who are focused and structured in their approach to mentoring get amazing results and it is not difficult or particularly hard work if you know what you are doing. Continue reading
Author at Coach Mentoring Ltd: Lis Merrick
Mentoring in a VUCA world – ‘Future Proofing’ your people
In an era of VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity) what makes an organisation fit for the 21st Century? And what impact has the global financial/economic crisis had on organisational cultures?
Sadly some organisations have gone backwards and become more “controlling” culturally, whilst other organisations are courageously and riskily doing things differently hoping this will lead to survival and better things longer term. This requires a different mindset for the people, and mentoring can support that mental change.
Skills Training Videos for Coaching and Mentoring
How wonderful it would be to have that little ‘nugget’ of coaching or mentoring knowledge available to watch just when you needed it? If you are responsible for delivering a coaching or mentoring programme then we have a range of these ‘nuggets’ available within our ‘off the shelf’ standard skills training videos, ready and waiting for you to use. Alternatively we offer a bespoke product, where the subject matter and content of videos can be personalised to meet your specific needs.
International Women’s Day – Finding your leadership style
I am saddened at the number of organisations that are still obviously male dominated and operate with an underlying patriarchal undertone, even with the enormous effort that has been put into creating equality in the workplace and publicity around the very positive impacts of having gender balance in senior leadership.
Team Coaching Foundation Course in conjunction with TMSDI
Coach Mentoring Ltd is delighted to be working in partnership with Professor David Clutterbuck (David Clutterbuck Partnership) and TMSDI to deliver an accredited Team Coaching Foundation course incorporating the Margerison-McCann Team Management Profile. Continue reading
Does a Woman need a Sponsor rather than a Mentor?
Sponsorship for Women
Formal and informal mentoring relationships exist in many organisations. Within these mentoring relationships the mentor may take many roles: being a role model, a sounding board, helping build networks and career support, sometimes simply being there to listen and challenge. However, linked to mentoring, but with clear differences is the role of a sponsor. Is it actually more beneficial for a woman who is seeking to break through the ‘glass ceiling’ to have a sponsor rather than an organisational mentor? Or perhaps she should be greedy and have both!
Women’s Mentoring and making a crack in the ‘Glass Ceiling’!
Supporting women talent specifically requires a further lens on how you look at your talent mentoring design, so here are some pointers for when you are developing mentoring programmes specifically to allow female talent to break through the glass ceiling.
In our initial experience of designing mentoring to develop senior women, the outcomes included one wedding, five promotions, several large pay increases, cosmetic surgery and a bullied mentor! So with the benefit of a number of women only mentoring programmes under our belts, use this checklist when designing a women’s mentoring programme: Continue reading
Access mentoring resources online on our mentoring community
Visit the Coach Mentoring Ltd Coaching Cloud Mentoring Community to see our great mentoring materials. Before entering you will need to sign up for a free Coaching Cloud account if you don’t already have one. Continue reading
Mentoring – Virtual Programme Manager
Virtual Programme Manager Mentoring Services
At Coach Mentoring Ltd we understand it is difficult to support your own mentoring programmes alongside all the other demands on your working time. So we offer a virtual programme manager service.
Jacki Mason and her team provide this program management outsourcing service on a global basis. You can benefit from these dedicated mentoring specialists, each with proven track records in mentoring. Continue reading
Developing your Talent through Coaching and Mentoring
Includes Best Practices, Insider Tips, and Additional Topics
Chronus Corporation, a leading provider of software for talent and career development, together with Lis Merrick of Coach Mentoring Ltd. will host a new webinar, “Developing Corporate Talent through Coaching and Mentoring,” on Wednesday, December 4, at 18:00 UK time. Continue reading
