Clare and Steve explore mentor coaching. What is it and how does it work? Recordings, transcripts, competency based feedback, one to one or in groups. Clare, author of a book on mentor coaching, shares her vast experience. They open up the conversation to explore coach training and how we might use mentor coaching and supervision to keep gaining feedback on ourselves as the coach, as we did in training, so as to ‘keep the tool sharp’. Coaches are sometimes nervous about such scrutiny and yet many report it as invaluable once they have experienced it. Steve reflects from his time designing coach training and shares a driving analogy used then, which might help us understand the relevance of ongoing learning, supervision and mentor coaching even when we know how to coach.

•Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide by Clare Norman. Use OPENUP20 for a 20% discount
•Bachkirova, T. (2015a) Self-deception in coaches: An issue of principles and a challenge for supervision, Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 8 (1): 4–19.