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Coaching and mentoring

Do you want to develop your personal coaching and mentoring skills? Or find a mentor to help move your career forward? Use our books, articles and helpful links to identify best practice and discover new techniques and approaches.

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eBooks

The ICAEW Library & Information Service provides full-text access to a selection of key business and reference eBooks from leading publishers. eBooks are available to logged-in ICAEW members, ACA students and other entitled users. If you are unable to access an eBook, please see our help and support advice or contact library@icaew.com.
Exclusive Designing workplace mentoring programs: an evidence-based approach
  • eBook
  • 2009
  • Tammy D. Allen, Lisa M. Finkelstein
  • Wiley-Blackwell
A short guide to mentoring for managers introducing it to an organisation.
Exclusive Coaching and mentoring
  • eBook
  • 2009
  • Eric Parsloe
  • Kogan Page
Examines how to create practical conversations to improve learning and encourage personal development.
Exclusive Improve your coaching and training skills
  • eBook
  • 2008
  • Patrick Forsyth
  • Kogan Page
Practical guide to staff development.
Exclusive Coached to lead
  • eBook
  • 2006
  • Susan Battley
  • Jossey-Bass
A guide to executive coaching for leaders or those aspiring to leadership positions.
Exclusive Executive coaching: how to choose, use and maximize value for yourself and your team
  • eBook
  • 2005
  • Stuart McAdam
  • Thorogood
A guide for anyone interested in becoming an executive coach or employing one for their organisation.
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Online articles

The ICAEW Library & Information Service provides access to leading business, finance and management journals. These journals are available to logged-in ICAEW members, ACA students and other entitled users subject to suppliers' terms of use.
Exclusive BDO aims to increase diversity and inclusion
  • Article
  • 21 Dec 2022
  • Michael Cohn
An interview with Bernadette Pieters, who was appointed as BDO USA's first diversity, equity and inclusion officer in 2022. She discusses the progress made at the firm towards improving their recruitment of employees from wider backgrounds. 'Intentional mentoring' to help retain staff from diverse backgrounds is one of her focuses.
Exclusive How to do sponsorship right
  • Article
  • 01 Nov 2022
  • Herminia Ibarra
Relationships between mentors and mentees in business mentoring programs often remain superficial and transactional, which can hamper their effectiveness. This article argues that, in order to to reap the full benefits of developmental relationships, companies must prioritise two vital qualities: public advocacy and relational authenticity.
Exclusive The coach takes the field
  • Article
  • 01 Oct 2022
  • Ed Leibowitz
Matt Mochary discusses how he became a world-leading coach to a generation of tech-CEOs. His 'Mochary Method' includes a software management package available to current clients. A core part of his coaching process involves encouraging CEOs to delegate responsibilities they do not excel at, and take on a chief of staff capable of running the company.
Exclusive One plus one
  • Article
  • 01 Aug 2022
  • Susan Muldowney
An interview with participants in CA ANZ’s 'Mentor Exchange: Return to Work' program, which connects members who have recently returned to the profession or are contemplating a career break. Mentor Elaine Boyd CA guided Annie Deng CA when she returned to accounting after having a baby - here they both discuss their experiences on the program.
Exclusive What's in the water at PepsiCo?
  • Article
  • 01 Jan 2022
  • Phil Wahba
The fizzy drinks manufacturer has also produced 16 current Fortune 500 CEOs. Phil Wahba has researched PepsiCo's highly developed system that identifies and intensively develops high performers within the company - known as "hi-pos".
Exclusive How to build an ethical company
  • Article
  • 01 Nov 2021
  • Jon Cowan, Maryam Kouchaki, Isaac H.Smith
Advice to create an organization that helps employees behave more honorably and provides on-going opportunities to learn through reflection. Managers can make ethics an explicit part of 'premortem' and 'postmortem' project meetings.
Exclusive The impact of mentoring: how to build on success
  • Article
  • 01 Sep 2021
  • Rebecca Pitman
The authors take a look at how mentoring can benefit Black accounting professionals. They identify gaps in support for Black accountants in the US and provide three recommendations to help address the support gaps.
Exclusive Five essential coaching skills for leaders
  • Article
  • 01 May 2021
  • Karim Harbott
With agile leadership as much about developing people as it is about setting the direction of an organisation, the author outlines five key coaching skills to help modern leaders thrive in an uncertain world.

Useful links

ICAEW mentoring and coaching programmes
Enhance your career in finance with a bespoke coaching and mentoring programme from ICAEW Academy. Our industry experts can empower you and further your finance career with tailor-made professional development.
Student mentoring programme
  • Promotional material
  • ICAEW
This mentoring programme will offer you the opportunity to connect with an ICAEW member, where you will receive advice and guidance on key areas in your professional ACA journey.
Student Mentoring Programme (Mentors)
  • Promotional material
  • ICAEW
We are looking for a group of diverse ICAEW members to participate in our new ACA student mentoring programme. This bespoke programme will support students in their career journey.
How mentoring can benefit your career
  • Website
  • caba
Tips and advice from the Chartered Accountants' Benevolent Association on choosing a mentor and getting the most out of the mentor-mentee relationship.
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