What is Leadership Mentoring?

It’s tough to have the responsibility for achieving results with a team. And it’s getting tougher. A key element of all of our programmes is the support that we provide to team leaders.

We equip the team leaders that we work with to take the lead in their development programmes. This is a key element in the implementation of genuinely Real World Strategy.

Is mentoring just another name for coaching?

Absolutely not!

Coaching is a key part of effective mentoring, but mentoring requires the mentor to have substantially greater reserves of knowledge and experience. A coach will take care to enable the person being coached to work out answers for themselves. A mentor will do this when it is appropriate, but can also save considerable time and achieve far greater results by introducing the best elements of their experience and knowledge.

Balancing authority and humility

One of the biggest risks with mentoring is that the mentor can become complacent in their knowledge and experience.

The best mentors are themselves disciplined and effective learners. This requires the mentor to balance the apparent conflicts between high levels of knowledge, authority and personal security, with genuine humility.