Coaching & Mentoring -Today's Importance

• Assessment of business benefits from coaching
• Defining types of mentoring relationships and roles
• Common derailers of coaching and mentoring programmes
• Evaluating innovative coaching and mentoring programmes and features for application to your system

Strategically Aligning Your System

• Developing programme objectives tailored to you
• Assessing your organisation's readiness for a coaching and mentoring programme
• Defining strategic issues and challenges facing your organisation
• The Linkage blueprinting framework

Strategically Aligning Your System (cont.)

• Stakeholder analysis to prioritise planning steps and preliminary implementation

Essential Design Decisions

• Processes for matching mentors and protégés to reflect your organisation's culture and design criteria
• Options for orienting and preparing programme participants
• Linkage's coaching competency model to identify potential mentors
• Effective means for initiating mentoring programmes
• Developing a map of your coaching and mentoring system