Have you ever considered mentoring or coaching in a career context – either as someone who would benefit from the career support they can offer, or someone who wants to become a mentor or coach? If you have, then this free course, Exploring career mentoring and coaching, will help you.

It will explain what mentors and career coaches do and how a colleague or expert who can ask the right questions, challenge assumptions, and help an individual to find the best solutions for themselves, can make a significant difference in a wide range of situations and contexts.

Working through this course will help you to: identify how a mentor or coach can support career development; understand the skills and characteristics of an effective mentor or coach; and find out how to become a mentor or coach when you feel ready to take on that role – whether now, or at some stage in your future career.

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• recognise the difference between mentoring and career coaching, and analyse how each can enhance career development
• understand the importance of self-awareness and how to develop this
• choose a mentor or coach with confidence
• get the most from relationships with mentors or coaches
• reflect on personal experiences and consider becoming a mentor or coach.