Mentoring and Coaching Skills
Coaching is a skill aimed at improving an individual’s work performance. Mentoring is the role played by an experienced person in the support of someone seeking self development. Differing roles in training and development but both share a common purpose.
We look into how coaching helps in advising and instructing while mentoring supports by counselling individuals on development schemes, training courses or just the day to day work-life activities that we all may share.
In coaching the core skills to be ‘effective’ required us to perform four key stages.
These are:
- Assessing current performance
- Setting agreed outcomes for learning
- Agreeing and initiating actionand
- Giving feedback
By looking at each of these stages we expand on the skills to be developed to be successful in that role.
We then look at the process of mentoring by examining three key stages in that process. This in turn enables candidates to asses themselves in the role, apply a checklist to be effective and as a review tool; a process to support the ‘mentee’ develop the ability to use the same process and there by maximising on the benefits of a strong ‘mentor-mentee’ relationship.
The workshop is designed for 8 to 10 delegates with two tutors facilitating to ensure individual support, group interaction and tutor attention. Each is designed as an ‘experiential learning’ event to provide maximum benefit to the delegate and introduces the concept of learning whilst having fun. Activities include group and syndicate discussion, self analysis, and business games appropriate to the workshop subject. A further benefit of ‘experiential learning’ is that it encourages delegate interaction, self-confidence and the skills of networking in a safe environment.