Coaching

What is Coaching and how is it different from Mentoring?

Coaching helps someone else develop their own approach / solution to an issue that they are facing. On the other hand mentoring is about giving advice, making suggestions and sharing experiences. A mentor draws on their own personal experiences and can act as a sounding board or a guide. Coaching on the other hand is focussed firmly on the future and helps individuals find their own paths. A coach will ask neutral non-leading questions and gives feedback.

What are the benefits of coaching?

As an individual coaching can help you in many ways, a few examples of the benefits of coaching are:

• improved performance
• improved focus
• development of specific skills or behaviours
• improved engagement/motivation
• greater clarity in role to improve impact
• solutions to work-related issues
• direction setting
• improved confidence
• maximizing your strengths, passion and purpose and building on your values.

As a business offering coaching to your employees also has its benefits:

• talent development / retention;
• improved engagement / motivation; and
• increased performance and productivity.

More businesses than ever are now offering mentoring and coaching as a “benefit”.  75% of organisations offer coaching or mentoring to their employees.