NES Coaching and Mentoring Information Pack

The NHS Education for Scotland website helps you to access information, resources on coaching and mentoring. This includes coaching and mentoring models , types, approaches and thinking underlying the way coaches and mentors work.

Table of contents

• How coaching has evolved
• How mentoring has evolved
• What are the similarities and differences between coaching and mentoring?
• The skills coaches and mentors need
• Working with a coach
• Working with a mentor
• Coaching models
• Different contributions the coach can make
• Further reading and resources

This resource has been written in response to colleagues wanting to understand more about coaching and mentoring.  It has been written to act as a support for a number of coaching and mentoring initiatives, managed both locally and nationally.