I’ve been loosely involved in some great conversations around coaching and mentoring recently. With the government’s aim of engaging 40,000 voluntary business mentors, will the current reputation of mentoring be affected? To an extent that’s what has happened with coaching, when I first worked as a performance coach about 12 years ago there were very few coaches around but now there are many. What I think will be interesting is the added dimension of the mentoring being offered on a ‘voluntary basis’. I’m curious to find out how easy will it be to find an effective match and whether the quality of the relationships will be measured in any way.