Coaching & Mentoring

An essential component of any current leadership style is the ability to enable others to achieve personal and professional goals and to get the best out of individuals and team-based working.  To develop excellence in facilitation and coaching & mentoring is integral to the role of leaders/managers.

Coaching & mentoring are intensive approaches to working with individuals with the aim to facilitate professional and personal learning and to encourage self-responsibility. They provide a way of reflecting on and developing effectiveness and excellence at work and in living.

The process of skilled coaching & mentoring inspires, educates, empowers, challenges and supports people in their ongoing development within a professional/organisational context. Its function is to be proactive and to safeguard quality, continued excellence in service delivery and continued enjoyment at work.

How You Will Benefit

• Developed your practical repertoire of skills and increased confidence in coaching and mentoring
• Expanded your understanding and awareness of the scope and potential of working one to one 
• Identified your strengths and areas of development and you will have strategies for continued learning

Who Should Attend

Participants have included CEOs, managers, management consultants and professionals who want to expand their understanding, competence and skills as a coach and mentor. We will explore the definition and core skills of both and draw from the experience and expertise participants bring.

What You Will Cover

• "Gateways to Coaching & Mentoring" including guiding, enabling, managing emotions, meaning, challenging and supporting
• Exploring the power continuum between direction and self direction
• Contracting, session management and keeping overall focus
• Mentor presence, integrity and building trust
• Examining the uniqueness and the boundaries of coaching & mentoring in different professional settings

Learning Methods

• Skills training and practice, using role play and simulation, intensive coaching, pair and triad work, observation & analysis, peer mentoring & feedback
• Experiential learning, reflecting on and learning from your thoughts, feelings, sensations and intuitions as well as from past experiences and your innate wisdom
• Introducing a wide range of models and theories 
• Modeling different styles of coaching & mentoring to explore their use and relevance