Join a free half-hour session to meet the delivery team for this accredited open PGC in Coaching and Mentoring for Leadership in Organisations. Watch the video to hear about this unique virtual course with its balanced focus on coaching & mentoring knowledge, skills and emotional intelligence. Plus experience some paired reflection for a flavour of how these sessions will work.
Mentoring and coaching are complex interactions between people and any evaluation needs to, not only look at outcomes, but also the process that led to the outcomes. Enter realist evaluation!
Evaluation is an essential part of any mentoring or coaching scheme. Why? Because, how can you improve the scheme without feedback? Continue reading
Some 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
