Coaching

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 600.

MENTORING VERSUS COACHING

Read the text below to check if your ideas were right. Name the most striking difference between mentoring and coaching.

What do you think is similar in the job of a mentor and a coacher? What could be the main difference between them?

TEXT 1

By Rachel Anevski, Smolin, Lupin & Company, Pa.

Many people confuse mentoring with coaching. While they are interrelated, they are not the same. A mentor may coach, but a coach does not mentor. Mentoring is relational, while coaching is functional. Furthermore, the world of coaching has become quite elaborate with business coaches, executive coaches and life coaches, oh my!

There are other significant differences between coaching and mentoring. Some characteristics of coaching are that managers coach their staffs as part of their job requirements. Coaching takes place within the confines of a formal manager-employee relationship. The focus is to develop individuals within their current job objectives. The interest of the relationship is functional, arising out of the need for individuals to perform the tasks required to the best of their abilities. Managers tend to initiate and drive this relationship. The relationship may be finite, ending when an individual has learned what the coach is teaching with respect to the specific job.