Coaching & Mentoring
Not a new fad or a buzz word. Throughout history, most great leaders have had coaches or mentors. Certainly good business leaders have always understood the high value of coaching and mentoring.
Coaching
This is the pool of skills required for giving performance feedback, delegating, motivating and energising employee performance. Coaching requires leaders to be flexible, they'll need to manage individuals with a variety of needs, skills and abilities. Contrary to what some managers might assume, 'one-size-fits-all' solutions do not apply to employees.
Mentoring
Mentoring is just one of the coaching skills and a significant one at that! It can promote self-development and self-sufficiency. In particular, it helps employees and team members to focus and be guided to do things for themselves.
In a nutshell, Coaching and Mentoring of an organisation's employees of all levels, enable more to be achieved with existing resources. It goes a long way to helping retain quality staff and add value to the business.