Maggie Bishop, recently retired Chief Executive of Children’s Country Holidays Fund and Stafford House Trust, who received mentoring for an extended period, says:

“My first WCoMC mentor arrived just in time to prevent me running away from a seemingly never-ending change management responsibility. Two successive mentors provided invaluable help in ways that included:

• Time out meeting in a relaxed environment and realising that I was not alone in the problems which needed resolution
• Taking time to view the organisation from a wider perspective
• Providing staged reference points and realising that between meetings much had been achieved
• Talking through a particular issue and finding solutions and new ideas to try out
• Hearing another point of view or example from business
• Advice during a period of restructuring and merging two charities”