What is coaching and mentoring?
Workplace coaching helps a person pursue goals through reflection, feedback, and self-directed action. Mentoring adds relevant experience, perspective, sponsorship, and longer-term guidance.
See how well you help people think, practise, and grow without taking ownership of their development away.
Answer as you are today
Choose the answer that best describes your recent behaviour at work. No email required.
What does coaching and mentoring mean?
Workplace coaching helps a person pursue goals through reflection, feedback, and self-directed action. Mentoring adds relevant experience, perspective, sponsorship, and longer-term guidance.
Why it matters at work
Advice can solve today’s problem while leaving capability unchanged. Effective development conversations balance questions with useful input, create practice, and keep ownership with the learner.
What this assessment measures
Listening & inquiry
Understanding the learner’s goal, context, reasoning, and current view before intervening.
Feedback & perspective
Offering specific observation, relevant experience, and challenge without prescribing every move.
Practice & ownership
Turning insight into a learner-owned experiment and follow-up.
How to interpret your score
Your overall result is normalised to a 0–100 scale. Use it to choose a practice area, not to compare your worth with somebody else.
Build your coaching and mentoring foundation
Your answers point to a few situations where a small, visible routine could make this capability more dependable.
A developing coaching and mentoring pattern
You use this capability in some situations. Strengthen the dimension that becomes less reliable when pressure or ambiguity rises.
A strong coaching and mentoring pattern
Your answers suggest a reliable pattern. Keep testing it against harder work and evidence from real outcomes.
Designed for reflection, not diagnosis
The ten behaviour-based statements cover 3 practical dimensions. Responses run from “Never” to “Almost always”; negatively worded items are reverse-scored. Overall and dimension results are converted to a 0–100 scale. The assessment is educational and has not been psychometrically validated.
Read the full assessment methodology and editorial standards.
Research that informed this page
Tim Theeboom, Bianca Beersma, and Annelies E. M. van Vianen (2014), “Does Coaching Work? A Meta-Analysis on the Effects of Coaching on Individual Level Outcomes in an Organizational Context”, The Journal of Positive Psychology.