50 Activities for Coaching and Mentoring (Print Version)

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