Co-Journeying
Mind the Positive is a channel of information and wisdom, for balance, fulfillment and wholeness. It takes various pathways to facilitate individuals towards exploring and reaching own potential. Coaching and mentoring, among other services –training and workshops, assessment and consultancy, in particular, are one-to-one interventions that serve that purpose.
Mind the Positive is a channel of information and wisdom, for balance, fulfillment and wholeness. It takes various pathways to facilitate individuals towards exploring and reaching own potential. Coaching and mentoring, among other services –training and workshops, assessment and consultancy, in particular, are one-to-one interventions that serve that purpose.
Coaching and mentoring, regarded today as the applied component of positive psychology, are processes that facilitate individuals to explore and achieve their potential. Though sharing common features, they differ from one another.
Coaching is “a process that enables learning and development to occur and thus performance to improve. To be a successful a Coach requires a knowledge and understanding of process as well as the variety of styles, skills and techniques that are appropriate to the context in which the coaching takes place” (Parsloe, Eric, The Manager as Coach and Mentor, 1999, p. 8).
Mentoring is “off-line help by one person to another in making significant transitions in knowledge, work or thinking” (Clutterbuck, David & Megginson, David, Mentoring Executives and Directors, 1999, p. 3).
Both coaching and mentoring are generally performed on the basis of certain tools and skills, to facilitate individuals in exploring their needs, motivations, desires, skills and thoughts, for making real and lasting change. Mentoring process takes place where an older and wiser colleague (mentor) passes on knowledge, experience, and opens doors, pathways and networks to help the individual reaching aspired goals. It requires formal occupational role and experience in the field. Whereas, coaching process is based on a defined coaching skill-set, rather than experience or formal occupational role, where a trained and certified professional (coach) facilitates the individual along the path in exploring and reaching aspired goals.
Some common principals of coaching and mentoring:
- Facilitate individual in exploration of needs, motivations, desires, skills and thoughts, for making real and lasting change.
- Questioning techniques to facilitate individuals into a thought process, to identify action plans and methods to follow towards goal achievement. Directive approach is avoided!
- Observe, listen and ask questions, in a non-judgmental way, to facilitate individual to be aware and understand the situation.
- Encourage setting goals and commitment to action for making progress towards goal achievement.
- Maintain non-judgmental, supportive and positive regard to the views, traits, lifestyle, and aspirations of the individual.
- Manage the relationship –setting the framework, relationship alignment, duration of process, etc. so that individual receives appropriate service level.
What to expect from coaching or mentoring?
If you are in search of a one-to-one intervention –rather than a workshop, and are seeking to set new goals, reach the goals you’ve already set, or explore new ventures, a coaching process to work within your personal competence –integrated with minding the positive philosophy, may be appropriate.
Additionally, if you are looking for making progress in a particular field or area of work –education, project management, career, or self-development, and feel the need for experienced facilitation for growth and development towards your goals, a mentoring process may be appropriate.
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