Coaching helps all your employees or team members
When you
coach employees, you improve their ability to do their current jobs and
increase their potential to do more in the future.
Mentoring is reserved for your most
talented employees.
Work with
talented people, help them advance, and they will become assets now and allies
in the future.
Ignore them,
and they’ll find someone else — maybe a competitor — who appreciates their
talents.
Mentoring is for your
exceptional employees, people who show promise but need help to become top performers.
As a mentor,
your responsibilities are to
— represent
the company’s values,
— give
pep talks,
— offer
instruction about your company’s political structure,
influence
decision makers to help your mentee, and
— provide
contacts and resources
A mentoring
relationship shortens your employees’ learning curve and increases
productivity.
— Your
organization’s success depends on developing employees!
— Coaching
is a key factor in attracting and retaining the best employees
— Employees
are inspired to work to their greatest potential when they are given support
and encouraged to develop their skills
— It
prepares both the employee and the organization for the future
Coaching
can be an off the cuff session
—
Usually informal but can be formal
—
Respect for the coach is usual
—
Rapport between coach and
“coachee”” helps
Mentoring
Mentor
may or may not be available on demand
— Could
be both formal and informal
— Respect
for mentors knowledge on the subject is essential
— Rapport
between mentor and mentee essential but
not always established
Coaching:
— Uses
deductive techniques
— The
coach doesn’t have to be an expert on the subject. A little knowledge can help
but it can sometimes be a hindrance.
— Prime
beneficiary is the individual but the organization also benefits
— A
coaching session is measured in minutes
Mentoring:
— Uses
a mixture of inductive and deductive techniques
— The
mentor must be an expert on the subject..
— The
prime beneficial is the organization but individual also benefits.
— A
mentoring programme is measured in months.
Coaching
— I Is a process that uses
deductive or drawing out techniques to
increase an individual’s ability and willingness in a specific subject or
problem area.
— Ideally the techniques are
used in a structured manner. The coach
does not have to be an expert on the subject.
Mentoring
Is a process that uses a
mixture of inductive(pushing in or telling) and deductive(drawing it out) or
Coaching techniques to increase an individual’s ability and sometimes
willingness in a specific subject.
— A structured programme is used . The mentor
must be an expert on the subject.
