Any difference between coaching and mentoring?

                               

                                 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.