Written to challenge, stimulate and inform, this book takes a critical look at the rapidly-growing field of coaching and mentoring.

This is the definitive introduction to coaching and mentoring, written by an experienced and multidisciplinary team. Taking you all the way through from the emerging theory to informed practice, the book covers:

- Skills, purposes and outcomes of coaching and mentoring processes

- The many settings in which they take place - public, private and voluntary

- Coaching and mentoring's evidence base and how it is assessed

- The professionalization of coaching and mentoring and a move towards integration.

Supported by a wide range of case studies, activities, further...