Implementing Coaching & Mentoring Programmes

The nature of coaching & mentoring

Companies implement coaching or mentoring for a variety of reasons and across a broad cross-section of employees. Schemes may be based on the traditional approach of a senior manager passing on wisdom and knowledge to a more junior colleague, or a non-directive approach based on facilitation of learning. Mentors and mentees may or may not be peers and may or may nor work within the same discipline or division within the organisation.

Benefits of in-house coaching and mentoring

Coaching & mentoring offer an effective means of supporting and facilitating employee development, particularly within a context of culture or organisational change and can assist in

• Promoting two-way employer-employee loyalty
• Providing more innovative approaches to career development
• Encouraging and empowering self-managed learning

Providing coach-mentees with "clear thinking space" supported by an objective sounding-board can be invaluable for individuals to more strategic and consider their actions within the broader context of their role. As a result organisations often find coach-mentoring to be a cost-effective and popular means of assisting in productivity improvement initiatives and in managing morale and motivation during times of potentially unsettling change.

What do we bring?

Lauriate has identified what we believe to be the critical success factors in a coach-mentoring programme.

Working closely with you to assess the effectiveness or an existing or planned mentoring programme. Coach-mentoring schemes do not work in isolation and our assessment is set in the context of the wider organisational and employee development factors.

We then work with you to design, implement and support you in managing an effective programme.

High impact is achieved through

• Integration with corporate values and goals
• Focus on achievement of specific, measurable objectives
• Combination of skills development and focus on individual motivations
• Focus on actual working environment and associated business issues

One-to-one coaching & mentoring within organisations

This approach is a powerful means of improving overall performance as it focuses on the individual - their strengths and weaknesses, communication style, personality factors, motivation and experience. We assist participants in our one-to-one programmes to identify how to modify their behaviour to achieve greatest success in their role and then we support them in making sure the changes happen.

"Coaching is the facilitation of an individual's learning process, enabling the individual to take ownership for their own development".

Anna Britnor Guest

Lauriate coaching programmes are built around a formal, measurable but flexible process. The duration and objectives of each programme will vary according to the needs of both the individual,the organisation and the external marketplace.

Clients repeatedly tell us that a key factor in choosing our coaching services is that our lead coach-mentors are experienced with successful track records in their industry sector. We frequently work in the IT, Telecoms and Electronics sectors and understand the pressures organisations face in these highly competitive dynamic business environments. Other sectors that we are experienced in include banking & and healthcare.

All of our programmes are practical, innovative and backed up with the high degree of professionalism assured by either the British Psychological Society (BPS) or the European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EMCC) codes of ethical conduct.

Coach-mentor skills workshops

We design all of our workshops to achieve specific client objectives. Workshops are built around key mentor competencies and incorporate formal learning with role play, "real play", exercises and discussion to maximise learning potential. In addition, we can observe participants in their "live" mentoring role and offer direct feedback.