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Below is a small collection of articles about coaching and mentoring, which we hope you will find useful. Further down the page are links to other sites.

Review of coaching and mentoring (pdf, 310kb)

This report summarises the main points of learning from the range of coaching and mentoring initiatives commissioned by the NHS Leadership Centre over recent years. The report also takes into consideration other research into coaching and mentoring that the LC has undertaken or commissioned.

The Heart of Coaching (46kb)

A manager's coaching model which is routed in the behaviouralist traditions of GROW, but helps managers to think through how to use coaching.

Mentoring for successful secondments (pdf, 35kb)

Secondment into positions in other organisations, and perhaps into a different sector altogether, is increasingly becoming seen as a means of developing employees. This is especially so in the context of neighbourhood renewal and regeneration. Judith Smyth discusses ways in which an experienced mentor can help someone on secondment to deal with the three typical phases of secondment, 'initial confusion', 'achievement' and 'demobilisation'.

How to choose a coach who's right for you (86kb)

Practical advice on choosing the right coach from the many available.

Buying Coaching: advice for organisations (36kb)

More practical advice, this time aimed at organisations wanting to buy in services

Coaching in the police service: a case study (pdf, 100kb)

This case study looks at coaching OPM carried out with BCU commanders

Applying integrative coaching within education

To be effective, coaches need to reflect on the lessons from counselling research from the past four decades and on the emerging coaching research to develop coaching models which are evidenced based.

Links

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British Psychological Society Special Group in Coaching Psychology (www.bps.org.uk/coachingpsy/)

Association for Coaching (www.associationforcoaching.com)

Institute of Leadership and Management (www.i-l-m.com)

European Mentoring and Coaching Council (www.emccouncil.org/)

OPM is an accredited ILM centre.

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