Mentoring – Be prepared

In the third in a series of columns dedicated to mentoring, we look at how to recruit mentors and mentees and how to prepare them for the programme. This issue: successful engagement Lis Merrick and Paul Stokes Your mentoring programme is in place. Now you must target...

Show of support

More and more organisations are training managers and leaders in coaching skills. But manager-coaching isn’t simply cheap coaching, there must be alignment with the business plus training and support, says Georgina Fuller Eight out of ten (83 per cent)...

Letter from Switzerland

Switzerland is culturally highly diverse. Coaching must adapt if it is to be understood and accepted Swiss Watcher Maren Donata Urschel After 12 years of living and working in London, I moved to Lugano (canton Ticino) in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland last...

Devil in the detail

EMCC UK’s Coaching Agreement aims to create an industry standard legal contract between coaches and organisational clients that will reduce commercial risks. Mike Taylor explains Coaching and mentoring have developed through standards, accreditation and...