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Coaching and Mentoring Programme designAt Coach Mentoring Ltd we have the expertise and reputation in designing and developing global coaching and mentoring programmes. Effective programme design is essential to ensure all your stakeholders benefit fully.

Whether you’re setting up a mentoring programme or a coaching programme, we can help you get the design right. For example, our 8 key steps to mentoring programme design will help you avoid common pitfalls.

We will even remain with you whilst your programme is running. See why a good programme can benefit from great virtual programme management.

Lost your mojo? Re-energise your mentoring programme

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A quick look at how to get that healthy buzz back again

Are you supporting, motivating and creating the most effective mentoring relationships in your programme? Well, if you are like most organisations then you probably start off with great intentions of doing this through the life of your programme and start off with a flourish, but then budget constraints kick in, or other priorities take over and you find six months down the line your mentors haven’t had a check in or support or supervision since the programme launched.  Continue reading →


Do you want to be self-sufficient with your mentoring?

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Mentoring Starter Package

Do you want to implement a new programme? Or enhance a programme you have already got running?

Mentoring is the most cost effective organisational development intervention you can use to develop, retain and motivate your employees. Bringing in external consultancy is not always an option, so based on our many years of developing and designing programmes we have produced a package to make you ‘experts’ overnight and to create the programme you need, quickly and hassle free.

Its Core Curriculum gives you a range of options, so if you do need a small element of consultancy support you can add this with the cost transparent upfront and with the intention of making you completely independent from day one! Continue reading →


‘Tech-savvy and lazy?’, How to mentor millennials

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Millennials at workThe way mentoring programme design was approached ten years ago needs to be reconsidered in the light of more recent generational differences in the workforce. By 2020 half the working population globally will come from the generation born between 1980 and 2000. As generations evolve, so do the methods for training, developing, coaching and mentoring people. Mentoring someone from the Millennial Generation (sometimes known as Generation Y) is not textbook developmental mentoring as we have experienced it previously. Understanding Millennials’ quite different career and value expectations is key if mentors are going to provide the right type of support to them, as well as the form of mentoring that Millennials relate best to, in order for organisational mentoring programmes to be effective.

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Mentoring — a 1000% ROI

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Two business men meetingI’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 →


Coach Mentoring Ltd conference, save the date!

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‘Coaching & Mentoring: Developing the next generation of leaders’

20th October 2016
12 – 5pm
The Royal York Hotel,
York, YO24 1AA 

 

Special Early Bird offer: £95 + VAT pp
book by 15th July to receive this offer.
Standard price £120 +VAT pp

Join us for an inspiring and informative day:

Focussing on coaching and mentoring solutions, this conference brings together a wealth of practical knowledge and consultancy experience, to inspire and inform the development of the next generation of leaders within your organisation. Designed with the HR professional in mind, the conference will provide pragmatic coaching and mentoring interventions to help maximise the leadership development of individuals and teams within your organisation.

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Mentoring Starter Packages: Everything you need to get your mentoring programme up and running

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Slide1It is widely accepted that mentoring benefits organisations and employees in a number of ways, and that setting up a programme is much more cost effective than bringing in external support.  The question is, how to begin?

If you’ve ever thought about developing and implementing your own internal mentoring programme, but not had a clue where to start, then one of our Mentoring Starter Packages, could be just what you need to get your programme off the ground.

These ‘off the shelf’ toolkits have been developed using Coach Mentoring Ltd’s vast experience of designing and delivering mentoring programmes, and are specifically aimed at supporting organisations in implementing their own internal mentoring programmes.

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Women’s Mentoring and making a crack in the ‘Glass Ceiling’!

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Breaking through the glass ceilingSupporting 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 →


Designing a Mentoring Programme – Training Participants

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Coach Mentoring ApprovedI have developed an eight-step approach to designing a mentoring programme with my clients. In this blog I am going to cover step 4, training participants in a mentoring programme.

Preparation can involve anything for a short face to face briefing to a two day training programme, with many organisations opting for short virtual training webinars these days which can ensure a global talent mentoring programme for instance can be run on a very cost effective basis.

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