One of the greatest gifts we can give another human being is to help them achieve their true potential in life - awaken and free their latent talents.

This is the real legacy of breakthrough coaches and mentors.

As such, it is totally enriching for both parties.

Coaching and mentoring are often used interchangeably. We see them more as points on a continuum. Coaching is more often focused on a specific area for potential improvement. Mentoring is more holistic, more whole-of-life, and often requires a much deeper level of openness, sharing and trust.

Some see a mentor as a teacher or wise counsel - someone who offers knowledge, insight, advice, perspective or wisdom to another person, usually by someone who is older and with more experience.

Our philosophy on mentoring is not this "teacher and guide" approach.

To us, mentoring is -

A mutual relationship of positive influence

A proactive, collaborative learning partnership, focused on the mentoree.

Helping a person to learn, rather than teaching them.

Enhancing and unlocking the skills, talents, resources, and creativity the mentoree already has.

Helping unlock a person's true potential to achieve fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives.

Learning, change, and transformation - re-inventing oneself.

A conversation, or dialogue, between the mentor and mentoree within a productive, results-oriented context.

About learning, and achieving sustained change breakthroughs - in thinking, beliefs, attitudes, behaviours.

A long-term journey of mutual discovery - helping the mentoree discover who they are and what their potential is, and likewise for the mentor.

Leadership in action.

While coaching and mentoring can be seen as different points on a continuum - a continuum of helping another person to learn, change, grow - to us they require the same philosophy and competencies in order to achieve real and sustainable breakthroughs.

For the Organisation - "Recent studies have shown coaching and mentoring to be the most effective means for achieving sustainable growth, change and development in the individual, group and organisation." HR Monthly - Other studies have shown a 500 - 800% Return on Investment to coaching and mentoring investments. - Pay offs include improvements in - Productivity. Organisational strength. Customer service. Staff retention. Cost reductions Leadership and management competencies. Success in planning Attraction of top talent. Bottom line profit.

For the Mentor - - Because it is leadership in action, it is one of the best crucibles to enhance leadership competence and confidence. ­ Is hugely satisfying to witness the growth of others you are involved with. - By unleashing the talents of your people, performance is enhanced. - As others are able to "step-up" it frees you up for other opportunities.

For the Mentoree - "Most people go to the grave with some of their best music still inside them." - Having an effective mentor is one way of ensuring this does not happen for you. The reality is the solutions to achieving our true potential lie within ourselves, but often we need to be guided towards achieving them. "For most people the real fear is not failure, but that we can be successful beyond all recognition." Mandela

	To be effective, a mentor needs a deep understanding of the psychology of adult learning, development and change, and be able to assist others to grow through a genuine relationship of influence, mutual trust, and emotional depth.
	The 12 core competencies of mentoring are not able to be built and sustained in a one-off workshop. Our programme incorporates our unique Multi-Learning System™ , to ensure mentors gain both the confidence and competence necessary to be effective breakthrough coaches and mentors.

The Breakthroughs Mentoring Programme - Our Breakthroughs Mentoring Programme is based on our over 20 years of successful Mentoring experience with hundreds of mentee's from many backgrounds, and thousands of hours spent in one-on-one mentoring sessions. We have helped many of these people achieve personal breakthroughs which have enabled them to achieve organisational breakthroughs, and breakthroughs with others. - We have combined our extensive learning programme design experience, international change management skills and technology, with our Mentoring experience to create a programme which generates true breakthroughs. - 180° Coaching & Mentoring Practices Survey, completed pre and post programme for each mentor, with a confidential report - 2 + 2 + 1 days of intensive workshops (spread over 2 months, the mentor conducting real mentoring sessions with 2 mentees between workshops) - Developing an in-depth understanding of the philosophy of mentoring, and models to support this - Understanding the psychology of human development, learning and change, including our own self-limiting beliefs, behaviours and attitudes - Developing competence and confidence in the 12 core competencies of mentoring, involving the use of video critique - Understanding how to develop mentoring relationships that deliver genuine breakthroughs - 12 assessment tools for the mentor to use with the mentee to determine their existing preferences (eg: learning styles), competency levels (eg: emotional intelligence), and attitudes (eg: optimism/pessimism, change readiness) - over 40 mentoring tools for the mentor to use flexibly, as the situation dictates, to assist the mentee to reflect, learn, change, grow, and sustain their developmental changes - Six 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with the mentor - Critique of a videoed real-life mentoring session - A mentoring plan developed and enacted for 2 mentees for each mentor during the programme - A personal development plan for each mentor - E-support for mentors, in the form of on-line tools, mentoring newsletter, e-mails, and ongoing feedback.

Breakthrough Performance Coaching - This programme is designed for those people, such as team leaders and managers, who wish to develop the competencies required to be an effective performance coach - Enabling the growth and development of their people in specific ability, behaviour and attitude areas, in order to achieve desired performance level. Stretching the performance of top talent. Turning around the performance of under achievers.

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