“Mentoring is a helping relationship based on an exchange of knowledge, experience and goodwill. Mentors help someone less experienced gain confidence, clearer purpose, insight, and wisdom. In developmental mentoring, the mentor, too, is changed by the relationship.”
It came from the conflict between the need for the manager to control staff and to support and develop them.
My first contact with the EMCC was an article I read and annotated – At Double – The Two Davids: meet the pioneers of the profession, in Coaching at Work, May 2009 issue; the two Davids – Clutterbuck and Megginson – have been introduced as a powerful double act on the coaching and mentoring circuit. And they’ve had some of their ideas halfway up a mountain. Mention mentoring to a bunch of coaches, L&D and HR and chances are Prof. David Clutterbuck name will come out. He set up the EMC European Mentoring Centre in 1992, together with D. Megginson. I am teaching mentoring myself at HR Enterprise Balkan using his books and materials. It helps us make a distinction between mentoring and coaching which are almost always referred together.
Prof. David Clutterbuck will sustain his Master Class on mentoring in Bucharest, on the 18t of October 2012.
ITOL Central Eastern Europe’s workshop at the EMCC XVIII International Conference, 17-19 November 2011, Paris celebrated the success of “The DNA of Learning & Performance” project we have run within a Romanian client company. Our clients have been invited to attend and be part of the panel. The participants found out how we have designed, implemented and monitored a Job Rotation at the top executive level and how mentoring and coaching secured the risks. Continue reading ‘ITOL CEE presenting its mentoring and coaching project in Paris’
