I was very flattered to be contacted on the subject of Mentoring Programmes a few weeks ago by the editor of Mentoring & Coaching Monthly, at the UNM Mentoring Institute. The editor was interested in my perspectives on the development of mentoring programmes and wondered if I would be willing to help them by participating in an interview for publication in their June
Richard Branson says “If you ask any successful business person, they will always have had a great mentor at some point along the road.” And he’s right. I was recently lucky enough to hear Nikki King OBE, MD of Isuzu trucks share her story of success and sure enough, one of the key points she
I recently ran a series of webinars for a business school for their alumni to understand mentoring in the workplace. That was the most recent of several mentoring programmes I have helped launch and run in the UK and globally since 1997. Some of the mentoring programmes have been within organisations like the one I managed
In my blog post “Top Ten Tips for Taking Control of Your Career”, I recommend that you “Find mentor(s) and sponsor(s) to support you. To make progress in your career you will need the help, support and encouragement of others. Take some time to identify those individuals who could assist you in some way. Find
This is the third and final blog post in my series, Mentoring – Your Question Answered. In these posts, I talk about a series of webinars I designed and delivered for a leading UK university who were launching a mentoring programme for their MBA Alumni. In Part 1 I shared a changed version of the
In my last blog post, Mentoring Part 1, I mentioned a series of webinars for a leading UK university who were launching a mentoring programme for their MBA Alumni. And I shared a changed version of the slides from the webinar I delivered, “Is Mentoring for Me?” The second webinar in the series focused on “Mentoring
This post will attempt to answer your mentoring questions. If it doesn’t please get in touch and I’ll answer directly. Mentoring can be an invaluable element of any leadership or professional development programme. It can help organisations: Retain talented employees and reduce costs of turnover and recruitment Develop leaders – those who mentor as well as those
Why Every Leader Should Get a Mentor Last week I attended a great seminar featuring senior leaders talking about how they had managed their careers. Every leader talked about the important role that mentors had played. Having recently helped launch the Professional Mentoring programme for CIPD North-East of England I was delighted to hear that and
I’ve recently been helping the CIPD North East of England Branch launch their professional mentoring programme. Having run some mentoring skills workshops for the mentors, we realized that we also needed to give some guidance to mentees because research has shown that the mentoring relationships that succeed are the ones where both the mentor and
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