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Exploring career mentoring and coaching
Exploring career mentoring and coaching

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6 Summary

By now, you should feel more confident about recognising a good mentor or coach and identifying the key skills that allow them to do their job well.

You should now be able to:

  • understand what makes a good mentor or coach
  • recognise how rapport and trust can be built
  • describe the listening and questioning skills that a good mentor or coach will demonstrate.

Reflection

Use the box below to note down any actions you will take as a result of what you have learned this week. This will be useful when you come to Week 8, reflecting on what you have learned over the whole of the course and planning your next steps, but you can also use it to check on your progress at any point.

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Next week, you’ll focus on mentoring, investigating what it can do, how it works and who can benefit from it.

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