O ver the past 5+ years, we’ve had the privilege of 1:1 mentoring and coaching over 40+ senior leaders in some of the UK’s largest firms. We’ve been guiding through a tough and revealing introspective learning and development journey, spanning the personal and professional.
We’re blown away by the genuine life-changing impact the work has on personal and professional lives. It’s truly humbling stuff. Here are some reflections from mentee’s:
”“I don’t recognise the person I was when I started out on this journey, it’s a one way street now”.
”“You’ve changed my life by simply making me ask questions and face things I never knew I had to do”.
”“Stepping outside my comfort zone is now my default mindset and I can see the root causes of my limiting beliefs in light of where I want to head in life”.
Here are our top 5 learnings:
- Everyone has blind spots: Even the most accomplished leaders have growth areas they’re unaware of. Coaching and mentoring provides a safe space to uncover these subconscious blind spots and blueprints to effectively change and address them.
- Vulnerability fosters connection: Leaders who are willing to be vulnerable and authentic build deeper connections with their teams. This creates a wider culture of trust and psychological safety for teams to flourish.
- Clarity of purpose drives performance: Leaders who are clear about their personal purpose and vision, inspire and motivate their teams. Coaching and mentoring helps leaders reveal their true purpose and aligns their actions with their core values with that of the company.
- The importance of self-care: Senior leaders often carry very heavy loads personally and professionally. Coaching and mentoring helps them to recognize the importance of self care (without the guilt), and helps them craft healthy routines to maintain wellbeing both mentally and physically.
- Observing life blueprints at play: Understanding your true origin story and resulting life blueprints unlocks why you do what you do in your life, positively or negatively. Liberating yourself consciously, whilst putting your oxygen mask on first, is a key to finding true meaning and purpose in both personal and professional lives.
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+ BONUS:
For the HR sponsors out there. Here’s how to keep track mentoring and coaching program impact and performance for leadership cohorts:
Metric 1
- Leadership competency 360 feedback improvement scores (team and management)
- KPI: Average post-program score – average pre-program score / average pre-program score x 100%
Metric 2
- Team performance increases (% delivery improvement, % relationships improvement, team satisfaction…)
- KPI: % improvement on KPI’s
Metric 3
- Cost-benefit analysis (retention, performance increase, reduced recruitment costs…)
- KPI: Estimated value of benefits – program cost / program cost = ROI %
Metric 4
- Program completion rate
- KPI: No. of mentee’s completing program / total no. of mentee’s x 100%
Metric 5
- Mentee perceived satisfaction and impact scores
- KPI: Personal ratings score (1-5 likert scale)
Metric 6
- Promotion and internal mobility rate
- KPI: No. of mentee’s promoted or moved / total number of mentee’s x 100%
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Mike Pinder is a cross-industry business innovation expert & consultant, thought leader, author, lecturer & international keynote speaker on innovation. He’s driven by using innovation to leave the world a better place than we found it. Mike is a co-founder of Wicked Acceleration Labs (an industry-academia research lab aimed at tackling wicked problems), Member of Board of Advisors at Global Innovation Institute (GInI), & Honorary Practice Fellow at Imperial College London Business School.
Mike consults and leads across innovation strategy, Design Thinking, Lean Start-up, Business Model Innovation in both B2B and B2C, guiding c-level innovation strategy, innovation accelerator design, co-creation, capability programs, academic research, executive education (Exec Ed) university program design, intrapreneurship, digital transformation, sprints & more.
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