Category Archives: Business Mentoring

What are coaching and mentoring for?

Written by Peter Burton on March 16, 2010

The words, coach and mentor, and their derivatives, are used interchangeably in this article.
Discussions on coaching and mentoring usually throw up at some point the question whose benefit is it for? Is it for the coaching client or for the sponsoring organisation or for the coach? This is not a trivial question. Whether or [...]

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The Role of Truth and Respect in Corporate Bodies

Written by Peter Burton on February 26, 2010

Once again, at this time in the banking crisis, non-executive directors are coming under fire for not preventing mis-management leading to disastrous consequences for the company.
The critics evidently expected the non-executives to be able to control the actions of management. Ironically it may have been the non-executives’ own perception (gained from the ‘combined code’ of [...]