Coaching Your Team Member
One of the roles of HR is to guide managers on how to coach and mentor their team members. In order for us to do this, however, we also need to understand some basic things about coaching and mentoring. Coaching vs. Mentoring While most people use "coaching" and "mentoring" interchangeably, the two concepts are actually different. According to the International Coach Federation , coaching is “..p artnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.” On the other hand, mentoring has been defined by the Association for Talent Development an at-will relationship between a "senior and junior employee fr the purpose of the mentee's (Read: Junior employee) growth, learning and development. When it comes to coaching , your purpose is to get the employee to realize why the behavior needs to be modified. Along the way, you also need the employee to understand the importance o...