Coaching and Mentoring at Loughborough

Releasing individuals’ potential, enabling them to be the best they can be

At Loughborough, we believe that people are at the heart of our success and we strive to provide an enriching and inspiring environment to help you achieve your very best.

Regardless of job family or grade all colleagues can, if they want to, apply to have access to a coach or mentor. Use these resources to help you to identify which form of support is most relevant to you. This may change over time, too, as your time at Loughborough progresses.

What is coaching and mentoring?

Coaching

A coach uses their ability to listen and to ask open questions to create a relationship of rapport and trust that enables the individual to clarify what their professional and or related personal goals are and to work out what to do to achieve them.

The University has a pool of trained internal coaches who adhere to the Association of Coaching’s, Code of Ethics and undertake regular continued professional development and supervision. They offer a maximum of four, one hour coaching sessions over a six month period.

You may benefit from a coach if you would like:

  • Short-term support in achieving specific goals
  • To gain clarity around your professional or related personal goals
  • Support to develop specific skills
  • Support to identify possible shorter-term next steps in relation to your identified goals

Mentoring

Mentoring is a professional relationship in which a more experienced colleague (not necessarily a senior colleague) applies their knowledge and experience to support the development of a less experienced colleague in achieving their agreed developmental goals over a longer term.

The University has a pool of mentors who offer 12 hours of mentoring over a period of 12 months, designed to allow an average of one meeting per month.

You may benefit from a mentor if you would like:

  • Longer term career development support in achieving ‘big picture’ goals
  • To gain career development support through experience, information and advice
  • To build relationships through which professional and personal skills may be shared
  • To explore and develop your potential, including identification of your strengths and weaknesses
  • To build a relationship in a changing environment that can enable you to negotiate challenges and to identify and pursue new opportunities
  • To advocate for and progress equal opportunity at Loughborough

Sponsorship Mentoring

A sponsorship-mentoring scheme for academic staff developed by SSEHS as part of their Silver Athena SWAN work, is also open to staff in Schools (RTE, teaching, postdoctoral researchers, technical tutors and technicians.)

For more information on its principles and resources, please consult our resources.

Get involved

Mentoring

Click here to find out more about mentoring and how you can get involved, as a mentor or mentee.

Coaching

Click here to find out more about coaching and how you can get involved as a coach or coachee.

Supporting documents and training

Resources for staff

We have developed a range of supporting documentation and training to assist anyone involved in coaching, mentoring and buddying at Loughborough (University login required).

Resources for external visitors

If you are external to the organisation you can also access some of our key resources.

Contact us

If you would like to discuss your individual requirements further, or if you are coordinating an existing scheme in your School/Professional Service and would like some additional support from Organisational Development, please contact us.

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