How can coaching and mentoring help HE staff to maximise their performance?

This paper demonstrates how coaching and mentoring approaches can be effective methods of developing capability in university management. This is a work in a progress case study from one full-range UK business school. The research shows how the literature on coaching and mentoring theory and practice was used to construct a way to address management and development issues within the school. The paper charts how the coaching/mentoring needs of the school were identified and how these have been used to create a coaching and mentoring scheme. The early findings indicate that such an approach to staff development was already being used for junior staff but, that until this intervention, there had been little individual support for senior managers and those who were preparing to become senior leaders. The intervention shows that this approach can be designed to address EDI, productivity and motivational issues within the workforce.