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Coaching and mentoring are ‘helping behaviours’ used to support personal development over shorter and longer periods respectively. You’ll find here information on coaching and mentoring, including career coaching, executive coaching, life coaching, coaching culture and ethics, models and schemes, coaching services, coaching skills, coach and mentor supervision and evaluation of coaching.

16 resources currently available for Coaching and mentoring: Information pages, Factsheets, Survey reports, Guides, Research, Practical tools, Event summaries

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The coaching climate

Discover the role and purpose of coaching in today's organisations. Who's responsible for coaching, how's it delivered and how it's changing.

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Foundation Certificate in Organisational Coaching

£2950 + VAT (Members £2655 + VAT)

Designed for HR and L&D professionals who need to build an appropriate level of coaching skills and knowledge to enable them to provide effective coaching in their day-to-day role.

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Factsheets (1)

Coaching and mentoring
October 2011
Introductory guidance on coaching and mentoring covering coaching culture, delivery and supervision, and HR's role. Includes the CIPD viewpoint.

Survey reports (4)

The coaching climate
February 2012
Bi-annual survey on the state of coaching in organisations. It aims to help HR professionals and coaches working with HR to deliver coaching and mentoring and to develop the evidence base on practice.
Learning and talent development 2011
January 2012
Our 2011 survey provides data on the main trends and issues in learning and talent development.
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Guides (2)

Real-world coaching evaluation a guide for practitioners
June 2011
Coaching is becoming part of normal management practice but organisations are failing to evaluate it effectively and demonstrate its impact. This guide sets out to embed effective evaluation practice.
Coaching and buying coaching services
June 2011
A new edition of our guide, a route map designed to help HR and others involved in the coaching relationship to manage coaching and mentoring effectively and efficiently.

Research (3)

Does coaching work? a report prepared for the Coaching at Work conference
June 2011
An overview of coaching as practised in 29 UK organisations. Provides preliminary answers to the question 'Does coaching impact on individual and business performance?'
Coaching supervision: maximising the potential of coaching
June 2011
Reports on research into good practice in coaching supervision, illustrated by case studies
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Books (7)

Bookstore - The Case for Coaching : Making evidence-based decisions
June 2006
This book will help you make a compelling case for coaching. We have trawled through all of the research on coaching so that we can tell you when it's effective and when it's not; what the benefits are for the individual; and what they are for the organisation.
Bookstore - The Coach's Coach : Personal development for personal developers
September 2004
Being a coach is a complex job - maybe you feel you could do with a coach yourself. Alison Hardingham is a successful business coach. In this book she combines her experience with that of three successful sports people: Mike Brearley, Adrian Moorhouse, and Brendan Venter. They offer advice, techniques and examples drawn from their experience coaching people in all kinds of organisations. Whether you are an experienced coach or just starting out, a specialist consultant or a coaching manager, this book will help you become better coach and enjoy it more.
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Practical tools (3)

Managing external coaches: practical tips for HR
March 2011
Designed to help HR professionals take practical steps to proactively manage the use of external coaching in their organisations.
Developing coaching capability: how to design effective coaching systems in organisations
March 2011
Practical diagnostic instruments designed to help HR professionals at all levels assess the coaching capability within their organisation.
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DVDs (1)

Bookstore - Coaching Skills for Line Managers
December 2008
Training DVD showing typical sequence of coaching and introducing skills at sequential levels of difficulty.
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