Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Building a community of committed, capable people is key to our future success.
That’s why our coaching and mentoring networks provide the opportunity for any colleague to connect, learn from others and fulfil their potential. Our coaches and mentors focus on creating a supportive yet challenging environment to help colleagues build capability and enhance performance.
Our coaching and mentoring networks now include support for:
Plus specialist mentoring for:
1. Start by giving some thought to your goals and what you hope to achieve from working with a coach/mentor.
2. Please complete and submit your My Goals form to the People and OD Team to request a coach or mentor, or contact the team at POD@leedsbeckett.ac.uk for more information.
3. We'll then match you with a suitable colleague from our network. You'll always be matched with someone from a different School or Service within LBU.
Both coaching and mentoring at Leeds Beckett provide a confidential, 1:1 space for you to work with a colleague removed from your day-to-day work. Both approaches are solution-orientated, future-focussed conversations about you: your goals, your challenges and your potential.
Our coaches are professionally qualified and use questioning and listening techniques to unlock your thinking. They'll work with you to help you to increase your self-awareness, clarify your goals, identify strategies to overcome obstacles and generate options for you to set a way forward.
Our mentors provide a safe space to share their experience and knowledge. They'll listen and ask questions too, yet may also offer advice to help you gain new perspectives, test your ideas, clarify issues and provide feedback.
Ultimately a coach uses a non-directive style, to enable you to come up with your own solutions. A mentor will typically be more directive, offering guidance based on their own experiences.
Whilst we’re not currently recruiting additional coaches, colleagues can find out more about becoming a mentor by visiting our 'Becoming a Mentor' webpage.
