The long view

There’s no such thing as a job for life, not even for senior managers. That’s why a new mentoring programme in Ireland for redundant executives has proved to be a real eye opener. Paula King reports The Chinese word for crisis involves two English words:...

Coaching on the rise in NGOs

Internal coaching and mentoring is on the increase in international humanitarian and development organisations. The increase is not just due to cost reasons but because it has the knock-on effect of motivating those chosen as coaches and mentors, and giving them a...

Why coaches love to be intimate

Intimacy is seen mostly as a good thing in coaching and mentoring, suggests research unveiled at the European Mentoring& Coaching Council annual conference in Dublin on 18-20 November. Only 10 per cent of coaches and mentors in research by Sheffield Business...

In the pipeline

In part two of our special report into talent management, Santander’s Caroline Curtis tells Liz Hall why the commercial bank is putting coaching at its very heart Caroline Curtis, Santander’s head of talent and people development, believes coaching is “the most...