Reading guidance and use
The following is a collection of articles and items we've created over the years, gathered here to support your interest in coaching, mentoring and conversational skills.
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Articles and blogs
Article 1: How does coaching increase engagement?
What is engagement and how does a manager's style and approach make such a difference to people's level of engagement in the workplace?
7 - 10 minute read.
Article 2. How does the ego impact us in coaching?
An interview with Julie Starr to discuss her learning an development on this key topic for any coach, manager or leader.
5-7 minute read.
Mentor Blog 1: Rein in that ego
Learn how having an agenda or strategy for the person you are mentoring can inhibit the true potential of the person you are mentoring.
3-minute read.
Mentor Blog 2: Mentor, don't manage
Discover how one of the easy traps for a manager to fall into, is to forget that a relationship is focused on mentoring, and instead return to managing.
3-minute read.
Mentor Blog 3: Benevolence is a Mentor's magic key
Why is benevolence important as a quality of a Mentor's mindset and approach, towards the person they are mentoring?
3- minute read.
Mentor Blog 4. Find your compassion
If benevolence and compassion are lacking, from the Mentor to a Mentee, what are the options? (A follow-up article to Mentor Blog 3.)
3-minute read.
Mentor Blog 5: The importance of respect in mentoring
As the twinned attribute to benevolence, learn how fundamental to infleunce the quality of respect is, from the Mentee towards the Mentor.
3-minute read.
Mentor Blog 6: The Manager as Parent
A pithy, provocative read on how the bringing our best qualities of parenting into the workplace might not be such a bad idea after all.
3-5 minute read.
Life Blog 1: How to handle failure
Noone likes it, everyone experiences it, let's get objective and practical, how to look at failure differently, maybe it's just progress?
3-5 minute read.
Life Blog 2: How to prepare for an awesome interview
Interviews, whether you enjoy them or not is less important than your preparation in advance. Here are three simple steps that anyone can benefit from - and they're super easy to do!
3-5minute read.
