ICS Mentor Resources & Peer Support Page

Below are a range of tools and resources that might be useful for you in your mentoring role and to support your mentees.

Ethics and Competencies

• Global Code of Ethics for Coaches, Mentors & Supervisors - the code of ethics to guide our coaching practice

• EMCC Competencies for Coaches, Mentors & Leaders - a competency framework to shape and enhance your mentoring practice

Tools

• 50 Free Coaching Tools - Barefoot Coaching shared a different coaching tool a week in 2025 -equally applicable to mentoring conversations!

• The Coaching Tool Company - Free Coaching Exercises

• Wheel of Life

Self Assessments

• VAK Learning Styles Questionnaire

• VIA Strengths Assessment (free)

• ICS Leadership Behaviours – Self-Assessment for Leaders

Mentoring Skills

• Establishing the Coaching Relationship Questions
• GROW Coaching Questions
• Self-Coaching Questions
• Four Levels of Listening (Youtube) Four Levels of Listening (Youtube)
  

Articles & Blog Posts

• Supervision for mentors: essential or extravagant? by Nicci Statham
• Improving the use of supervision in mentoring by Heidi Thomas
• Questioning the quantity and quality of mentoring supervision by Christopher McLaverty
• Preparing for a reverse mentoring programme by Christopher McLaverty
• Levelling the playing field for women through the human power of mentoring by Sally Twisleton
• The privilege of being a mentor by Sally Twisleton
• Book review: Mastering Mentoring and Coaching with Emotional Intelligence
• Self Awareness & How to Become More Self Aware
• How can coaches choose their approach & their interventions based on the evidence we now have?

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Mentoring Skills

Mentoring Tools & Models

• Benefits of mentoring outdoors
• Growing with the GROW Model
• The importance of a personal vision in mentoring

Mentoring & Diversity

• Accelerate action
• How mentoring can support diversity & inclusion
• How coaching supports diversity
• Supporting neurodivergent individuals
• Supporting neurodivergent individuals as a mentor
• Taking advantage of reverse mentoring
• The importance of mentoring to improve diversity
• What stops women from mentoring?
• Women as mentors

Mentoring & Career Development

• Career Development Theories
• Career Mentoring to Kickstart your career
• Career Stages & mentoring
• How to achieve your career goals this year
• How to cultivate great mentoring relationship & grow your career
• The importance of mentoring - benefits for career success
• Why being a mentor can help your career
• Why mentoring matters, even when you are well into your career