Techniques for coaching and mentoring/ David Megginson, David Clutterbuck

Part 1: Introduction --- Part 2: The Techniques. 1. Establishing and managing the coaching or mentoring relationship -- 2. Setting goals -- 3.Clarifying and understanding situations --4. Building self-knowledge -- 5. Understanding other people's behaviour -- 6. Dealing with road blocks -- 7. Stimulating creative thinking -- 8. Deciding what to do -- 9. Committing to action -- 10. Managing the learner's own behaviours -- 11. Building wider networks of support,influence & learning -- 12. Review and ending the coaching or mentoring relationship -- 13. Building your own techniques.

Coaching and mentoring are perennial hot topics for training practitioners. This book offers practical and thematic approaches from renowned experts complete with index for easy reference. The aim of this book is to provide the coach or mentor with a wider portfolio of techniques and approaches to helping others than would normally be gained from practical experience or attending a course. In compiling these techniques, the authors have drawn on experience from their coaching and mentoring activities, and added to these with the help of other experienced professionals within the field. They have clustered these into a number of themes, which now make up the framework for the main body of this book.