50 Activities for Coaching and Mentoring

Donna Berry , Charles Cadwell , Joe Fehrmann

These activities provide stimulating exercises, realistic case studies, and creative role-plays that will enable your managers and supervisors to sharpen their skills in several key coaching roles - as team leader, facilitator, counselor, and director. Each fully reproducible activity is organized in a user-friendly format with detailed trainer's notes, clear objectives, and suggested variations for customizing the activity to meet your group's needs.


Training Objectives
  • Introduce mentoring concepts and peer guidance techniques
  • Develop skills to express performance improvement goals clearly
  • Create open, trusting relationships
  • Refine managers' skills in providing constructive feedback

Training Methods
  • Team games
  • Group discussions
  • Icebreakers
  • Role-plays
  • Questionnaires and written exercises

Time Guidelines
  • 34 activities take 1 hour or less
  • 6 activities take between 1 and 2 hours

 

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