BE YOUR BEST

LIZ DIMMOCK In this new column, Liz Dimmock will share lessons for mentoring and coaching from the sports world. This year she is leading a team of women cyclists around the globe. Sport has the potential to be a positive catalyst for girls and women. Just think of...

SO LONG, THEN

In the latest in a series of columns dedicated to mentoring, we look at how to support mentors and mentees when saying farewell to each other. This issue: winding up the relationship by Lis Merrick Be careful how you close a mentoring relationship. Loose ends can undo...

Physician mentor thyself

by Linda Miller An international conference on physician health has stressed the important role of coaching and mentoring in developing leadership potential in clinicians and enabling satisfactory work/life balance among this group. More than 300 delegates from 16...

Mentor with care

  Flexible, simple and individually led: these are the hallmarks of learning disability charity Mencap’s mentoring scheme. Head of learning and development, Alton Hobbs, talks to Liz Hall Mencap’s mentoring scheme is one of the largest for an organisation the...

MENTORING: COPY CAT!

by LIS MERRICK In the latest in a series of columns dedicated to mentoring, we examine what is involved in role model mentoring. This issue: Kick starting mentor/mentee rapport. Matching a mentor role model and a mentee gains in power when the mentee gets creative...