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Managers as Mentors

Gallup, in their State of the Global Workplace 2025 survey, report “Employee Engagement on the brink, with a drop in Manager engagement and continuing team disengagement.

Productivity, business performance, and GDP growth is ultimately at risk.

The Solution?

Gallup state “Three actions for leaders:

  1. Ensure all managers receive training (less than half of the world’s managers say they’ve received management training)
  2. Teach managers effective coaching techniques to boost manager performance by 20-28%
  3. Increase manager wellbeing by 32% through ongoing manager development (where managers have someone at work who actively encourages their development, manager thriving increases even further to 50%).”

Options for Manager training

SectorMentor offers a 2hr Introduction to effective mentoring skills that is CPD certified (CPD Certification Service), as well as a 3.5hr course.

Our difference is that we also integrate quarterly support sessions for Managers who use mentoring skills at work, to help support how they use tools and techniques to have purposeful conversations at work. This helps create a mentor network within a company, and enables Managers to be more effective, supported, and encouraged at work.

Contact andrew@xsectormentor.com for more information.

About the author

Andrew Penker

Andrew is the founder of XSectorMentor.com, a mentor training company providing CPD certified courses that train people managers to have purposeful conversations at work, and enable their colleagues to become better versions of themselves.

Andrew provides independent HR Consultancy services delivering strategic projects, change initiatives, organisational design, communication, and team development.

He is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, a Member of the Institute of Leadership, and holds a Masters in HR Management, Certificate in People Analytics (Wharton), and is a certified Coach (AoEC), and accredited Mentor (EMCC).

Andrew is a trustee with the Enchanted Forest, an award-winning immersive art experience in the Highlands of Scotland.