Mentoring is a process in which a more skilled or more experienced person, serving as a role model, teaches, sponsors, encourages, counsels and befriends a less skilled or less experienced person for the purpose of promoting the latter’s professional and/or personal development.
Mentoring functions are carried out within the context of an ongoing, supportive relationship between the mentor and mentee.
Counseling and coaching are skills that can be learned through persistence and patience. If you have a sincere desire to develop and support others and the self-discipline to practice the specific strategies, you can become proficient in these areas.
The rewards from improving your counseling and coaching skills are many. In our professional life, we can use these skills to create optimal working conditions which include: proper orientation and training for employees, establishing clear responsibilities and standards, providing appropriate guidance and support during times of transition and insuring increased motivation and productivity through effective feedback.
To enhance managers or supervisors on behavioral coaching skills with appropriate techniques in order to build better rapport with the staff and ultimately to produce efficient and effective work.
Behavioral Coaching is the key to creating a more open organization, one that values people- their skills, ideas and contribution- and genuinely seeks to empower individuals. To have effective behavioral coaching it must happen at every level in the organization.
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