Traditionally mentoring happens as a one-to-one relationship between a more experienced person as the mentor and a less experienced person as the mentee. However, we experience a growing interest in establishing group mentoring programmes based on the need to provide mentoring for more mentees while mentors is a scares resource. Group mentoring - what is that? Group mentoring can take many forms, … [Read more...] about Group Mentoring Becomes More and More Popular
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Mentor vs Mentee’s Direct Manager – a Question of Confidentiality?
The three-way conversation between coach, client and the client's direct manager, is commonplace in coaching. Sometimes also involving HR, it provides a valuable opportunity to clarify agendas, establish the support needed from the direct manager, and improve the relationship between the manager and the employee (Clutterbuck, 2014). Often the role of the coach here is to coach both the manager and … [Read more...] about Mentor vs Mentee’s Direct Manager – a Question of Confidentiality?
Changing Lives by Transforming Learning
Together with two Kenyan universities (Kenyatta University and Moi University) researchers from University of Brighton have worked on strengthening the education systems in East Africa. The project title is Strengthening education systems in East Africa: mentoring for development in pre-primary and primary education (SEMESA) and was founded by the Aga Khan Foundation and ran in a two-year period … [Read more...] about Changing Lives by Transforming Learning
Benefits of Modern Mentoring
Leaders and executives are facing many challenges in their daily work. Living in an ambiguous and volatile world and often in a matrix organisation with many influencers and stakeholders, makes it difficult to make decisions and feel confident that the decisions are right. There is a need to test reality and find clarity that can be difficult to handle alone, which creates a need for confidential … [Read more...] about Benefits of Modern Mentoring
