The topic for today is ‘’coaching and mentoring ’’.
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Task 1.
Read the text below to get the general idea:
Nowadays coaching and mentoring have become very popular forms of informal training and personal development in business. Although the two processes may share some similarities at first sight, in fact they differ considerably in merits. Experts differentiate a few key areas which they believe are most important.
Generally speaking, mentoring is mainly focused on personal development as such while coaching is performance driven. The latter therefore involves enhancing current skills or acquiring new abilities in order to do the job effectively and improve company results. On the contrary, mentoring is designed to retain talented people within the organization.
Additionally, coaching is said to have a certain duration hence mentoring is seen as a long time relationship between a mentor and a mentee. Coaching usually lasts for as long as it is needed to complete a task, but establishing a successful mentoring bond may take a year or even longer. Therefore, mentoring programmes are viewed more like career trainings for elites, for a selected few in a company, rather than regular informal courses.
Moreover, coaching is more structured in nature than mentoring. Meetings are always scheduled on a regular basis while in mentoring sessions are planned upon request, when they are needed by the mentee.
Finally, the mentor is selected from senior staff members, he has to be a very experienced person in an organization who has know-how and likes sharing knowledge. On the contrary, the coach can be an independent external professional who does not need to know the coachee’s work background to achieve competence goals.
Summing up, when a company seeks to develop specific competences of its employees it should definitely consider coaching. If it desires to create strong leaders as a part of succession planning for instance, mentoring will prove to be the best option.
Task 2.
Study the text carefully and mark the sentences below as true (T) or F (false):
1. When you coach people you improve their skills. …..
2. In mentoring the focus lies on individual development. …..
3. Coaching means a planned pairing of two skilled people. …..
4. Coaches are supposed to give advice and offer help. …..
5. A mentor is usually much older than a mentee . …..
6. A coach is a well trained expert in personal development. …..
7. Effective mentoring is about helping to learn new skills. …..
8. Coaching is about sharing knowledge and know-how. …..
9. In terms of design mentoring is less structured than coaching. …..
10. In terms of duration coaching is longer than mentoring. …..
Task 3.
Watch the video ‘’ Coaching in the workplace‘’ and complete the sentences below :
1. Coaching in the workplace means focusing on finding a …………………………
2. Coaching means a lot of meaningful ……………………………………..
3. Successful coaching enables a person to ……………………….. forward.
4. Coaching involves: ………………… listening, ……………….. questions and inspiring ………………………….
5. Right questions asked in the right context can …………………… new ways of thinking.
6. ………………………. suggestions might trigger new ……………………….. that will help a person to ……………….. objectives in some other way.
7. Coaching enables people to think more ………………………….
8. Effective coaching can bring a tangible ……………………… on ………………………………
9. Successful coaching can ………………………………. productivity.
10. It has been widely proven that coaching ……………………. in the workplace.
KEY TO EXERCISES
Task 2.
1. When you coach people you improve their skills. ..T.
2. In mentoring the focus lies on individual development. ..T.
3. Coaching means a planned pairing of two skilled people. ..F..
4. Coaches are supposed to give advice and offer help. ..F..
5. A mentor is usually much older than a mentee . ..T..
6. A coach is a well trained expert in personal development. ..T..
7. Effective mentoring is about helping to learn new skills. ..F..
8. Coaching is about sharing knowledge and know-how. ..F..
9. In terms of design mentoring is less structured than coaching. ..T..
10. In terms of duration coaching is longer than mentoring. ..F..
Task 3.
1. Coaching in the workplace means focusing on finding a SOLUTION.
2. Coaching means a lot of meaningful CONVERSATIONS.
3. Successful coaching enables a person to MOVE forward.
4. Coaching involves: ACTIVE listening, POWERFUL questions and inspiring SUGGESTIONS.
5. Right questions asked in the right context can TRIGGER new ways of thinking.
6. EXPLORING suggestions might trigger new INSIGHTS that will help a person to MEET objectives in some other way.
7. Coaching enables people to think more DEEPLY.
8. Effective coaching can bring a tangible RETURN on INVESTMENT.
9. Successful coaching can INCREASE productivity.
10. It has been widely proven that coaching WORKS in the workplace.
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Set 32 Coach or mentor
Set 32 Coach or mentor key
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