2. Difference between Mentoring and Coaching
Mentoring Coaching
business mentor provides:
1. support to the mentees with
regard to their career growth
and interpersonal skill
development.
Mentor helps mentees to :
1. Explore career options
2. set development goals
3. develop new contacts
4. identify resources.
Mentoring is a long-term process
based on mutual trust and respect.
A business coach focuses on:
1. specific skills and
development goals by
breaking them into concrete
tasks to be completed within a
specified period of time.
Business coaches help and guide
businesses clarify their growth
vision.
Coaching is for a short period of
time
3. Advantages of Mentoring and Coaching
for Employees
Learn and Grow within the Company
Inexperienced employees learns form Experienced employees
in supported environment.
Further enhancement of their skill level, problem analysis and
strategic thinking
Increased job satisfaction
Promotes their professional and personal growth
Boosts individual appreciation and self-confidence
4. Advantages for Employees Continued….
Helps in developing a healthy relationship with the
management and supervisor.
Helps to lessen the sense of low self-esteem and
disappointment.
Provides perspective to think about a better work role and
career.
Recognizes weaker sections and converts them into potential
successes
5. Advantages of Mentoring and Coaching
for Organizational success
More skilled and well-performing employees.
Greater employee retention.
Human resources are utilized to its fullest.
Greater possibilities of attaining goals and success.
The succession plan is planned and drawn in advance.
Developed skill set and expertise of the employees.
Communication within the workplace and organization as a whole
is improved.
Company culture and ethics gets strengthened.
6. How Coaching and Mentoring sessions work
Collaborative environment in the workplace wherein professional training is
productive
Employees are willing and committed to expand, improve and develop themselves.
The management recognizes the requirements of the employees for professional
learning that must be attained to raise organizational standards .
There are standard methods and sets of styles for mentoring and coaching programs.
To incorporate coaching and to mentor, the work roles of employees are redefined.
The appointed mentors have the critical personal and professional characteristics and
experiences needed for effective coaching.
These experts also provide constant coaching and improvement required for the
development of the employees.
There is an all-round assessment of the effect of coaching/mentoring on individuals
and the organization.
7. Mentoring and Coaching Tips
Devise clear goals that include benchmarks and deadlines
Be prepared to help with time management
Frame feedback in a straightforward and positive manner
Follow up on feedback
Emphasize effort over ability
Celebrate accomplishments
Listen more; speak less
8. Reverse mentoring:
initiative in which older executives are paired with and
mentored by younger employees on topics such as
technology, social media and current trends.
E-mentoring
Keep in touch with their mentors via e-mail,
Facebook, and Twitter, but they may get together for
lunch if they happen to be in the same location.
9. Barriers to effective mentoring and coaching
1. Poor matching of mentors or coaches to their mentees
2. Anger from those not chosen to participate in mentoring and
coaching programed, perhaps due to a perception of favoritism
3. The creation of unrealistic expectations as to what mentoring and
coaching can achieve
10. Cost of Mentoring and Coaching
Cost of time and energy
Loss if mentor Fails or employee fails to fulfill the training
requirements.
If this process is outsourced then organization have to bear
high cost
11. Conclusion
Coaching and mentoring can provide an array of benefits for
organizations of all sizes when conducted in an efficient and
effective manner.
Coaching and mentoring provides employees a way to
connect, Learn and grow within the company and along
their own career path.
