Coaching and mentoring
Coaching
Coaching is one of the key approaches through which leadership in organisations can be developed.
It’s a method of deploying techniques embedded in artful questioning and appreciative inquiry to help leaders unlock their full potential to achieve personal and professional success.
Whether as a one-to-one focused and bespoke relationship or within a group context, coaching is often perceived as the single most effective development intervention our staff can access.
The South East Coaching and Mentoring Register is an easy-to-use platform to find a coach or a mentor at any point in your professional career if you are looking for a longer term coaching relationship.
South East Coaching and Mentoring Register Coaching and Mentoring – South East Leadership Academy
Mentoring
Mentoring is very different to coaching. Support and guidance of a mentee is often led by a more experienced, skilled and knowledgeable professional mentor.
The emphasis is on developing the leadership expertise of the mentee in a work context, with the process of mentoring encouraging independence, autonomy and self-development.
Through embedding reflective practice, shared learning and improved ownership for solution-focused thinking, mentoring can deliver improvements in an individual’s performance that lead to enhanced leadership maturity.
South East Coaching and Mentoring Register Coaching and Mentoring – South East Leadership Academy
Coaching and Mentoring resources
Coaching and mentoring resources for individuals
FREE Coaching Tools - My Self-Help Habit (myselfhelphabit.co.uk)
- How to use coaching skills to support your own development and growth (self-coaching tools).
Living With the Inner Critic: 8 Helpful Worksheets (positivepsychology.com)
- Free online assessments to help you explore your critical inner voices (self-sabotage).
How 14 Coaches Help Their Clients Overcome Procrastination (forbes.com)
- A model to help you manage procrastination tendencies.
Microsoft Word - Co-Active-Coaching-Toolkit-JOB-PERFORMANCE-WHEEL.docx (coactive.com)
- Job Performance Wheel exercise to enable you to measure your satisfaction across a range of performance related areas.
Personality Test, Personality Assessment: VIA Survey | VIA Institute (viacharacter.org)
- The VIA Character Strengths Survey enables you to identify your character strengths with a free to download profile.
iResilience: Free Personal Resilience Report (robertsoncooper.com)
- The iResilience report provides a comprehensive understanding of personal resilience (strengths and areas of risk).
Self-Compassion Test (self-compassion.org)
- Test how self-compassionate you are and some self-compassion activities and exercises.
Career framework | Health Education England (hee.nhs.uk)
- A self-assessment tool to help nurses review progress, build confidence and further career options.
Circle of Influence. Why you have more power than you think (thensomehow.com)
- A tool to enable you to gain insights about your sphere of influence and level of control.
Learning Library (North West Leadership Academy)
- A questionnaire designed to help you pinpoint your learning style/preferences so that you are in a better position to select learning experiences that suit your style (downloadable word document).
Values and Beliefs Tools | Crowe Associates (crowe-associates.co.uk)
- A range of tools to help you identify, explore, and prioritise your values.
17 Emotional Intelligence Tests and Assessments (positivepsychology.com)
- A range of articles and quizzes to help enhance your ability to understand and manage your emotions.
The Wheel of Life® - Finding Balance in Your Life (mindtools.com)
- The wheel of life helps you consider each area of your life and assess what is off balance.
Coaching and mentoring resources for coaches and mentors
- Short four-minute film on how coaching works.
The GROW model in action (YouTube)
- Seven-minute video demonstrating the GROW model in action.
Corridor Coaching Example (YouTube)
- Four-minute video demonstrating a ‘corridor coaching’ approach.
An Example of Good Coaching Questions (YouTube)
- This video shows the importance of using open questions when coaching a colleague.
Coaching in the Workplace (YouTube)
- Short clip explaining what coaching conversations in the workplace entails.
What is the difference between coaching and mentoring? (YouTube)
- Four-minute clip from NHS Elect explaining the difference between coaching and mentoring.
- Confused what coaching is? Watch this short, animated video to learn more.
To coach, to mentor, or both? (YouTube)
- A short animation exploring the differences between coaching and mentoring and their relevant applications.
Building Coaching and Mentoring Capacity highlights (YouTube)
- Building Coaching and Mentoring Capacity in the NHS.
- Five-minute video on what is mentoring from both a mentor and mentee perspective.
- Five-minute video on how to be a mentor.
Mentoring Skills: The art of questions (YouTube)
- Nine-minute training session on the art of questioning in mentoring.
Co-Active Coaching Toolkit (coactive.com)
- The Co-Active Coaching Toolkit is a free database of resources available for you for download and use with your coaching clients.
Coaching Conversations for Leadership Development (hee.nhs.uk)
- Coaching Conversations and Resources.
Professional mentoring resources (mentorloop.com)
- Everything you need to build your best mentoring program yet.
Coaching and Mentoring factsheets (cipd.org)
- CIPD factsheets to identify ways to apply coaching and mentoring principles as part of an overall learning and development strategy.
Coaching and Mentoring Toolkit (westlondoncollege.ac.uk)
- Coaching and Mentoring Health and Wellbeing Toolkit.
Mentoring worksheets (princes-trust.org.uk)
- Worksheets designed to support mentoring young people, but useful for all ages.
Tips and tools for successful mentoring (warp-it.co.uk)
- Some great tips and tools so you can begin the exciting journey to do all that’s necessary to attract, and offer, awesome, high-level help.