Coaching as a process is designed to help you (the coachee) to gain insight and confidently make decisions though the coach asking you great questions. The coach need have no knowledge of the area/subject matter being coached. The questions should not be leading or directive and will elicit intuitive responses, conclusions, new insights and perspectives by you – the ‘coachee’. The coach offers an impartial, non-judgemental service that helps breakthrough whatever may be holding you back.
In an often quoted study by the Manchester Group, ‘Improved Relationships’, at 77%, made the greatest contribution to improved Return On Investment from coaching.
Mentoring is quite different – the mentor gives advice and insight based on his/her specialist experience and knowledge, which is shared in a teacher:student way. The mentor may ask great coaching questions, and may also lead the client/student towards conclusions that are favoured by the mentor, based on his/her experience. The mentor may be asked for their advice and may freely give it.
Relationships – the complex and emotional interaction between two human beings is not something that can be mentored, unless the mentor has had specialist training and plenty of experience in effective relationships. Life experience (the university of life) alone does not teach us what we truly need to know in order to be fulfilled and reach our true potential in relationships. Instead, life experience tends to merely propogate behavior that does not get the results that we would wish for.
This is why our combined approach of education and mentoring, followed by coaching, based on very specific and high quality training and experince in relationships, is essential to gain the results that you wish for.
Yesterday we were on BBC Coventry & Warwickshire for a third time on the Annie Othen mid-morning show; this time talking about overcoming fear.
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