What is Coching & Mentoring?

What is Coching & Mentoring?

1. Coaching

   • Description
     • Relates primarily to performance improvement
     • Focus on supporting individuals to identify their own goal
     • Skills are more important than experience or knowledge

2. Mentoring

   • Description
     • Longer-term development
     • Stronger focus on career/organisational
     • Experience & knowledge is very important

3. Similarities

   • Draw on common skills
   • Aims include:
     • Self-directed learning
     • Personal growth
     • Improved performance

4. Attributes

   • Intensions are to help individuals achieve their best & reach potential
   • Individuals have responsibilities for own problems, aims & objectives
   • Purposive & goal orientated
   • Linked to organisational strategy
   • Should have boundaries
   • Variations in applications
   • Wide range of operational context
   • Mentors & coaches can exist singly or in multiples
   • Should be linked to organisational & stakeholder needs

5. Strategy

   • Identifying, developing & retaining talent (key issues on org's strategy today
   • Develop human capital - building long term values to support future growth & change

6. Business case

   • Reynolds (2004) crucial link between HR practices & org performance is discretionary behaviour (phsycological contract) L&D such as C&M creates conditions for people to engage in discretionary behaviour
     • Communications
     • Motivation
     • Creativity
     • Engagement
   • Cost effective
   • Strategically align
   • Retain knowledge
   • Cross-skilling
   • Succession planning
   • More personable
   • Networking