Mentoring and coaching

Mentoring – free places available

Our mentoring programme is designed to support you to maximise your potential by developing skills and improving performance. Mentoring offers a secure space for deepening your professional knowledge and exploring development opportunities. The programme starts with an initial 'chemistry call' to establish suitability, set goals and agree an accountability framework. Subsequent sessions are tailored to your objectives, offering impartial guidance and a chance to reflect on your developing practice.

As a Chartered Project Professional (ChPP) with nearly 30 years' experience in communications project management, Matthew is well placed to help you take the next step in your career.

The investment is tailored to your budget, but we want to include as many people as possible. Through the Association for Project Management and the Royal Society of Arts, Matthew is currently offering a limited number of free mentoring places (please note, oorganisational membership is required). Find out more on the mentoring pages of the APM and RSA sites.

Coaching

Coaching offers a safe space to explore issues and develop your career pathway. It differs from mentoring in that the emphasis is on using and developing your existing personal and professional resources, rather than acquiring industry-specific knowledge. It is especially useful for when you feel 'stuck' in a work situation or professional relationship.

 As a qualified NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) Master Practitioner, Matthew can support you in developing your professional capabilities and improving your work-life balance. To make the programme as inclusive as possible the investment is flexible, to suit your budget.

Building healthcare success for digital agency

Building relationships with new audiences requires knowledge and expertise – and a degree of commitment. A successful digital agency wanted to attract new clients in the healthcare and not-for-profit sectors. We worked with them to help position the organisation and supported them in developing a marketing strategy and online modules tailored to the needs of their intended new client base, to build the agency's credibility as potential long-term development partners for NHS and voluntary organisations.

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Nuffield Trust: publishing strategy and training

To support the publishing programme at the Nuffield Trust, we designed a programme of process mapping, writing training and internal communications, to improve the quality of writing and engagement with the publishing programme.

The programme has delivered improvements in writing quality and helped streamline the delivery of publishing projects, as well as providing a series of reference documents and an up-to-date style guide.

The programme has also developed the publishing workflow to accommodate ebooks and print-on-demand editions.

“Understood us as an organisation, built good relationships and managed implementation astutely. Developed and successfully implemented writing training programmes that have upskilled our researchers.”

— Daniel Reynolds, Communications Director

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NHS Confederation: editorial training

The NHS Confederation publishing team was highly experienced, but wanted to move beyond competence to achieve editorial excellence.

We designed and delivered a workshop to first define the key features of top-class copy-editing and then map out a practical implementation process.

The workshop received positive feedback from both course participants and managers.

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Health Foundation: publishing strategy

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The Health Foundation is a major independent charity working to improve the quality of health care in the UK.

We undertook a thorough review of the charity’s publishing processes (including a benchmarking exercise) and made several recommendations, contributing to a streamlined workflow and saving time and costs.

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Project Management Secrets

MB Communications Director Matthew Batchelor is the author of the best-selling Project Management Secrets. Published by HarperCollins in 2010, the book has sold over 10,000 copies in English and has been translated into languages, including Portuguese, Thai and Vietnamese.

A chartered project manager (ChPP), Matthew delivers presentations and  training events based on the stories and insights in the book, to help organisations improve the way they think about and manage communications projects.

Because we believe in good project management that delivers social value, reduced training rates always available to public and voluntary organisations.

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