Mentor CPD, free lunchtime education webinars — Autumn 2023

Lunchtime webinarIn Autumn 2023, join these free 30-minute mentor continuing professional development sessions during UK lunchtime. Lis Merrick will lead most of these discussions, aimed at supporting mentor CPD in a relaxed, interactive, informative and fun environment. Guest speakers will also bring their experience to topics. Our series includes supporting your mentee with self-confidence and self-belief, mentoring and diversity, mentoring through career transitions, helping your mentee through liminal space, solutions focussed mentoring and reverse mentoring. The series culminates in an extended mentor supervision session.

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Use mentoring to positively impact climate change!

Mentoring for climate changeOrganisations can use mentoring to step-up and take the lead on climate change now, rather than wait for governments to impose regulations, which will be too late! The biophysical underpinnings of our world are all threatened by accelerating climate change and the speed and scale of sustainability efforts have been inadequate to date.

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Free webinars — How to have more effective mentoring relationships

Free lunchtime webinars — effective mentoring relationshipsHappy New Year, we hope that 2022 is healthy and fulfilling for you all! Every year Coach Mentoring Ltd. briefs many hundreds of mentors and mentees in how to get the best out of their mentoring relationships. Join Lis Merrick for some free bite-size sessions to help you optimise your own mentoring skills and knowledge. It’s a great way to sample a taste of what we might offer your organisation’s mentors and mentees! Continue reading


Free webinars — coaching and mentoring programme design and training

Free WebinarsJoin three more of our free lunchtime webinars in June 2021 to discuss: How to design a mentoring programme, what to include in mentoring training and how to educate your internal coaches or line manager coaches. The webinars are just 30 minutes long, get straight to the point and will have time for questions and discussion. Perfect timing for anyone launching a programme in the Autumn of 2021! Continue reading


Slowdown to achieve more in your life and career

Slowdown – In Praise of SlownessSome time ago I was delivering a mentoring workshop for some senior managers in a very large financial services business. The training manager was taking part and at the first coffee break he came up to me and said “They say it’s going well, but it’s a bit slow!”. “Thank you for the feedback” I said and when we restarted the workshop, I mentioned “I have had some welcome feedback from your training manager. He tells me that it is going well, but it’s a bit slow!” “Yes, yes” said the managers. “Ok” I replied, “That’s good, but I don’t think it’s slow enough!Continue reading


Skills Training Videos in Coaching and Mentoring

7 reasons why you should use coaching and mentoring skills training videos

Skills Training Video

Are your employees short of time? Do you have a small budget for development? Or do you have a geographically dispersed group of coaches or mentors? Then use videos to provide robust skills training and development for your people. They will really create a high standard of mentoring and coaching knowledge in your organisation!

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