Coaching and Mentoring

Coaching and mentoring provide you with one to one and group support to help you develop in your role and career.

Coaching 

Mentoring

  • Coaching provides a space for self-reflection, allowing you to gain valuable insights into your strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement. 
  • Mentoring usually involves a senior colleague, the mentor, sharing their professional knowledge and experience with a less experienced individual, known as the mentee.
  • Coaches will tend to focus on agreed skills to develop through using observation, questioning, listening and feedback to provide insights for dealing with situations.
  • The mentor provides support and motivation for career aspirations and development.
  • More formal
  • More informal
  • Shorter-term
  • Longer-term

Coaching

Access to professional, accredited coaches to support you to reflect, develop and navigate change.

We partner with an external coaching provider who works with a diverse network of experienced, accredited coaches. All sessions take place online, making it easy to schedule at a time convenient to you.

Whether you are developing as a manager or leader, returning to work after parental leave, or thinking about retirement, coaching gives you time and space to focus on what matters to you.

If you and your manager agree that coaching would be helpful for you, you will be matched with a coach who has experience in the area you want to focus on. Together you will shape the conversation around your goals, challenges and priorities.

Mentoring

Mentoring is a supportive learning relationship between two people – usually referred to as a mentor and a mentee.

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