Coaching and Mentoring
Coaching and mentoring can be used whenever performance or motivation levels must be increased. There are many applications, each to be looked at from as many points of view as possible.
Solving Problems: Helping you to identify
problems and possible routes to a solution
Brainstorming: Direct your creative input
to keep projects on track.
All development is self-development. One cannot force another to develop: they must want that themselves. Nonetheless, what a coach can do is to help set an environment that makes it more likely you will want to learn, grow, and succeed.
Things to keep in mind when your ready to call you coach.
For any single coaching and mentoring goal there is a cycle of
six basic stages, each of which hinges on effective questioning,
active listening, clear feedback, and well-organized sessions.
First, the mentor coach and the client get to know one another
to establish clarity and rapport, engage, and agree what the goal
is.
Second, they discuss the current reality, to which the mentor
coach will adapt the coaching and mentoring style.
Third, they explore available options.
Fourth, they identify and commit to a course of action (at a pace the client is comfortable with) in line with shared expectations (that might involve training);
Fifth, the client implements the agreed actions with the support of and clear
(meaning constructive and positive) feedback from the coach;
Sixth, the mentor coach and the client consider what has been
learned and how they might build on that knowledge, possibly
by initiating a new coaching and mentoring cycle.