Mentoring, coaching & buddying

Understanding Understanding Mentoring & Mentoring &

CoachingCoaching

careersuccess

satisfaction

The mentoring partnership is an agreement between two people sharing experiences and expertise to help with personal and professional growth.

PHASE DEFINITION TURNINGPOINT

INITIATIONINITIATION Six month to a year Fantasies become concrete expectation

CULTIVATIONCULTIVATION Period of two to five years Opportunities and relationship becomes more meaningful .

SEPERATIONSEPERATION - Significant change in the relationship

- Emotional experience in the relationship

Wants to put learning into practice

RE-RE-DEFINITIONDEFINITION

In definite period after the separation

Stresses of separation diminish and new relationships are formed

• full opportunity to access the exciting and fulfilling career spectrum available

•more informed decisions

•more confidence in decisions made

• fewer catastrophic mistakes

An approach to management - how one carries out the role of being a

manager. Is a set of skills for managing employee

performance to deliver resultsIs a person to person technique – takes

place informally

To develop individual knowledge, skills & attitudes

Is a skill of facilitating the learning, the development & performance of

another person

MENTORMENTOR COACHCOACH BUDDYBUDDY

Private, Individual

Private or Public Individual or Group

Partly Private but some aspects can be Public. E.g. paper work

MENTORMENTOR COACHCOACH BUDDYBUDDY

Line Manager cannot be the mentor

The line manager can be the coach

Line manager normally appoints B. from amongst his / her own team

MENTORMENTOR COACHCOACH BUDDYBUDDY

Intermittent, medium to long term.

Can be very short term as well as medium to long term

Short term & frequent during induction period. May take considerable time.

MENTORMENTOR COACHCOACH BUDDYBUDDY

Context within which Learner’s work is done i.e. help person plan & decide the future

Content of work to improve job performance

Build confidence of learner, e.g. know their way around, who does what

MENTORMENTOR COACHCOACH BUDDYBUDDY

Need not always involve face to face contact

Difficult to achieve without face to face contact.

Must be face to face, the two people should ideally work in close proximity

MENTORMENTOR COACHCOACH BUDDYBUDDY

Persons better prepared to progress their own Development & Career

Improved job performance

Person has completed induction successfully

Choose two very different approaches that a manager could use for the following scenarios. Indicate which approach you would use: