Coaching and Mentoring
Coaching And Mentoring Training Course – While the coach is a person who gives personalized training that will improve the learner’s skills, knowledge, and technique. Although a mentor is similar to a coach, a mentor teaches more by example, by role-modeling, by demonstrating the skills that the learner can then emulate. To be a coach and a mentor is a privilege and honor.
This course has been specifically designed to help you develop your understanding of coaching and mentoring and the benefits of using them in the workplace. With this course and accompanying toolkit, you will be able to recognize how to structure and carry out an effective coaching or mentoring session.
Coaching and mentoring are two of the most important skills in any leader’s arsenal. These skills can be used to drive growth and, therefore, better results from yourself and others, and can also aid individuals in overcoming struggles and barriers to progress. This course will provide learners with an understanding of coaching and mentoring in the workplace and various coaching models and how to use them to maximize results and the personal and professional development of employees, team members, and friends.
To be a good coach and mentor requires a high degree of skill. The purpose of the Coaching And Mentoring Training Course is to teach the skills needed to become an excellent coach and mentor.
Course Objectives
The objective of this course is to help Mentors and coaches develop skills that will allow them to get the best performance from themselves and others. Those skills include:
- Develop clear communication
- To be able to use accurate and objective language: Not vague or ambiguous language
- How to use encouragement and praise to keep people motivated to learn more
- How to give negative feedback in a positive way
- Mentors are role models: they demonstrate the standards they hope to inspire in others
- A mentor/coach will often ask questions rather than issue commands
- The Mentor /coach can ask intelligent questions that stimulate the right answers (as opposed to giving solutions readymade): This is called the Socratic Method
- The Mentor /coach can purposefully build the self-image and confidence of others
- The Mentor /coach understand that people act in accordance with their self-image
- They purposefully build the levels of goal focus, confidence, and knowledge, and they thus will produce improved team performance