Coaching & Mentoring

AI and the Future of Business Mentoring

Interviews 27 Dec 2025 Management-Issues

A Q&A with Ben Jacobs, Chief Project Officer at the Association of Business Mentors (ABM) and co-author of 'AI and the Future of Business Mentoring'.

A conversation with Valence's Anand Chopra-McGowan

Interviews 30 Oct 2025 Management-Issues

Valence's Anand Chopra-McGowan discusses their AI-powered coach, Nadia, and how to bring the benefits of coaching to everyone in the workplace.

Mentoring and coaching essential to boosting performance, retention, and wellbeing

News 27 Oct 2025 Management-Issues

Mentoring and coaching are essential drivers of business performance, staff retention, and employee wellbeing, according to a new report.

A conversation with Rebecca Drew, Managing Director of Vistage UK

Interviews 01 Oct 2025 Management-Issues

Vistage UK & Ireland's Rebecca Drew discusses entrepreneurship, the potential impact of AI and some of the challenges facing growing businesses.

Why coaching in business can fail to produce results

Opinion 06 Feb 2025 Clare Norman

Coaching often fails to deliver because organisations want the benefits of coaching without making the up-front investment in screening individuals for coaching readiness.

Exploring the Enneagram with Karl Hebenstreit

Podcasts 18 Oct 2023

In this episode, we explore the Enneagram with Karl Hebenstreit, author of "The How & Why: Taking Care of Business with the Enneagram".

Beyond coaching psychobabble: let the buyer beware

Opinion 27 Mar 2018 Manfred Kets De Vries

The advertising pitches of many coaches raise false expectations and seem designed to fool the gullible. Contrary to all the hype, creating meaningful behaviour change is neither easy, fast nor linear.

Leadership coaching and invisible change

Opinion 15 Oct 2015 Ian Day

Changes in behaviour can look very different to different people. So leaders who have been undertaking coaching need to be aware that people around them may observe changes in their behaviour before they start to feel any change themselves.

Improving your remote coaching sessions

Connected Manager 13 Aug 2014 Wayne Turmel

We all know how important it is for managers to coach team members. But with remote teams, coaching conversations can be particularly tough to get right. Here’s how to get round the lack of non-verbal cues to make your remote coaching sessions more effective.

10 beliefs that hold you back

Opinion 20 Jun 2014 Gary Cole

We all suffer from limiting beliefs that impact our effectiveness. In our professional lives, these limiting beliefs can cause a chronic, sometimes very acute, malaise. Here are the most common - and some ways to go about dismantling them.

This is who I am - deal with it

Opinion 21 Feb 2014 Dan Bobinski

Before we start to pick holes in others, we need to look at ourselves first. That's why managers whose attitude is, 'this is who I am, deal with it' are so toxic, and why the higher up the ladder they climb, the worse the fall-out can be.

With resolutions, you go where you're focused

Opinion 27 Dec 2013 Dan Bobinski

At the beginning of each year, millions of people and companies make New Year's Resolutions. And every March or April, most can't recall what resolutions they made. The main reason? They did not focus on their goals.

Mentoring gap keeping women and minorities out of corporate elite

News 20 Sep 2013 Brian Amble

The numbers of women and people from racial minorities serving on America's corporate boards may have increased over the past decade, but the influential elite holding multiple board positions remains a white, male closed-shop. New research explores why.

Too much or too little, ego undermines leadership

Opinion 19 Sep 2013 Cindy Wahler

Ego – either much or too little – is a prime leadership derailer, which is why assessing it needs to be a key component of the talent planning process.

A positive difference

News 26 Mar 2012 Brian Amble

Workplace counselling services can make a significant and lasting improvement to the lives of people with work-related stress and other problems, new research has found.

Latest book podcasts

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Vish Alluri: The Enlightened Manager

02 Feb 2026

Vish Alluri, co-author of ‘The Enlightened Manager', discusses a thoughtful approach to management which draws on the teachings of the philosopher, Jiddu Krishnamurti.

Steve Cockram: the Voice-Driven Leader

23 Dec 2025

Steve Cockram, co-founder of Giant Worldwide, talks about his latest book, 'The Voice-Driven Leader' and explains how to create environments in which every voice gets heard.

What is Relationship Currency?

18 Nov 2025

Keynote speaker and transformational coach, Ravi Rajani, talks about his new book, 'Relationship currency: five communication habits for limitless influence and business success'.

Hone - how purposeful leaders defy drift

07 Nov 2025

We dive into the new book from Deloitte's Geoff Tuff and Steven Goldbach, 'Hone - how purposeful leaders defy drift'.

To coach or not to coach

News 16 Sep 2011 Brian Amble

If you were offered the services of an executive coach, would you jump at the chance? According to a new survey, most of us would. But a significant proportion of executives sometimes refuse the coaching their employer offers.

She's a nightmare – but irreplaceable

Advice 20 Apr 2009 Dan Bobinski

One of David's employees generates around 30% of his company's sales. But she is a nightmare to work with, alienating colleagues and poisoning the atmosphere. Dan Bobinski suggests how to deal with the situation.

Socrates, Plato and the guy in accounting

Opinion 14 Apr 2009 Wayne Turmel

If we cast our minds back to the best managers we ever had, most of us will think about someone who helped propel our careers. But would our people put us in that lofty category? What are we doing for them?

Mentoring your way out of recession

News 26 Jan 2009 Nic Paton

With budgets for formal training getting slashed, managers are going to have to start spending much more time mentoring and coaching their teams themselves.

Coaching no longer the preserve of the elite

News 26 Mar 2008 Nic Paton

The days of coaching being something reserved for directors and senior management are long gone as a new report finds that two fifths of UK employers now offer coaching to staff at all levels.

You nurture, you grow

News 10 Oct 2007 Charles Helliwell

A study conducted by Kimberly-Clark has concluded that business improvements are four times more likely, when senior executives mentor and encourage their senior managers' coaching and development efforts.

Accentuate the positive

Opinion 24 Sep 2007 Janet Howd

We all accept that athletes, dancers and musicians need to go through unusual rigours to raise their game. So why not accept that similarly rigorous re-alignment of thought and physique might benefit us, too?

How do I stop the lying?

Advice 21 Jun 2007 Charles Helliwell

Craig has been coaching an employee on performance issues, but the problems seem to run much deeper than this. As Charles Helliwell points out, it's almost impossible to coach someone to value their work, if they don't enjoy it or find it stimulating.

Executive coaching losing its gloss

News 20 Jun 2007 Brian Amble

Executive coaching might have passed its peak of popularity, according to a new survey, with a third of organizations calling on coaches less frequently now than they did in the past.

Coach or cowboy?

News 05 Jun 2007 Nic Paton

British businesses spend a fortune on coaching for their staff, yet two thirds believe coaching has become riddled with cowboys and the same proportion never measure whether their money is being spent wisely.

Marshall Goldsmith on executive coaching

Interviews 01 May 2007 Des Dearlove & Stuart Crainer

Marshall Goldsmith, one of the world's best known – and best paid – executive coaches, talks to Des Dearlove about his coaching philosophy and how he helps successful leaders get better.

Coaching hits the corporate mainstream

News 24 Jan 2007 Brian Amble

Coaching has hit the corporate mainstream as a new survey finds that fully half of managers in the U.S. have received some sort of coaching in the workplace in recent years

U.S best at grooming leaders of the future

News 04 Jan 2007 Nic Paton

American corporations beat the rest of the world hands down when it comes to identifying and nurturing the leaders of the future, but there is still more they could do.

Fifth of women overlooked, as men get cream of the coaching

News 19 Oct 2006 Nic Paton

Women executives often receive less coaching than their male counterparts, putting them at a distinct disadvantage when it comes to advancing their careers, a U.S study has concluded.

Older workers face backlash despite a wealth of experience

News 18 Oct 2006 Nic Paton

Older workers are often unable to keep pace with new technology and are viewed increasingly negatively in many other areas. But according to a U.S. survey, they more than make up for this in other ways.

Latest book reviews

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Relationship Currency

Relationship Currency

Ravi Rajani

In an era where AI can draft emails and manage our schedules, 'Relationship Currency' is a timely reminder of the importance of investing in genuine human connection.

Hone - How Purposeful Leaders Defy Drift

Hone - How Purposeful Leaders Defy Drift

Geoff Tuff and Steven Goldbach

In a business landscape obsessed with transformation and disruption, Hone offers a refreshingly counterintuitive approach to today's organisational challenges.

The Confidence Myth

The Confidence Myth

Ginka Toegel

How can women leaders break free from gendered perceptions? Professor Ginka Toegel’s new book challenges the narrative that female leaders lack confidence or that women need to "fix" themselves, arguing for a fundamental shift in how organisations recognise and reward competence.