Coaching, mentoring, volunteering and work – what works and what doesn’t

This perspective piece provides an outline of how mentoring, rather than coaching, is prevalent in the voluntary sector and used as a tool to develop skills in volunteers. Mentoring, a voluntary activity, is chosen over coaching, usually a paid activity, and examples of developmental and peer mentoring programmes are outlined. The learning drawn from these examples at individual, team, and organization level are outlined and the need for a higher level of involvement by HRD professionals in the design and implementation of mentoring programmes is recommended.

Citation

Adams, N. (2025) Coaching, mentoring, volunteering and work – what works and what doesn’t. International Journal of Human Resource Development: Practice, Policy and Research, 9(1), pp. 46-52.

Type

Journal article

Language

en

Description

© 2025. The Authors. Published by Sciendo. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence. The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher’s website: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijhrd-2025-0005

ISSN

2397-4583

Collections

Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Sciences