Coaching programme replaces mentoring

After running a formal mentoring programme for 10 years Wilkin & Guttenplan PC, a US CPA firm, realised that younger CPAs needed more of a short-term, hands-on focus to learn to deal with different management styles, varying expectations from members of management, and skill requirements that change based on assignments, and to advance more rapidly. In 2005 the firm replaced the mentoring programme with a formal coaching programme that incorporated more day-to-day challenges into the coaching/me...

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9.4.6 Develop management/leadership competencies
9.4.3 Deliver education and training