GIVE AND TAKE

Reciprocal mentoring can deliver plenty of benefits for organisations, including helping to shift the system, but it’s important to get it right. David Clutterbuck reports   This article offers a practical guide to reciprocal mentoring, including essential...

MENTORING: A SIMPLE SOLUTION

Over-simplifying in mentoring programmes is a risky business, especially in evaluation, warns guest columnist, Bob Garvey. The ‘realist evaluation’ approach accesses mentoring’s many layers   Within organisations, there are many competing demands on managers –...

MENTORING: POWER TO THE PEERS

How can we maximise the value of peer mentoring? Lis Merrick reports   Mentoring comes in all shapes and sizes these days, but one under-used approach in organisations is peer mentoring, whereas in the education sector, peer mentoring is used widely. In my view,...

MENTORING: A RECIPE FOR DISASTER

Lis Merrick explores how to design a mentoring programme for the front line in the humanitarian sector This is the fastest mentoring intervention I have ever turned around, but one that has given me some of the greatest satisfaction in my mentoring career. So what was...