The importance of Mentorship and Coaching

From tee-ball to little league, there was someone along the way to help you improve in the sport. A coach provides skills to help individuals achieve specific goals, such as maximizing their career, improving relationships, overcoming fear, and achieving personal dreams. As a toddler, fear is not a factor and we tend to go hard at figuring things out along the way. However when we get older we find ways to make excuses to get out of doing things because of fear of failure. These are the times when having a coach or mentor in your circle would be beneficial to having a successful life.

When you begin to look for a mentor or coach, there are certain characteristics and qualities they should hold. In the workforce it is essential for a company to mentor and coach its people to ensure the company success. Listed below you will find some reasons why it is mentoring and coaching is essential:

• Further enhancement of their skill level, problem analysis and strategic thinking

• Increased job satisfaction

• Promotes their professional and personal growth

• Boosts individual appreciation and self-confidence

• Recognizes weaker sections and converts them into potential successes

• Enhances problem analysis

• Helps in developing a healthy relationship with the management and supervisor

• Helps to lessen the sense of low self-esteem and disappointment

• Provides perspective to think about a better work role and career

Mentoring and Coaching is beneficial to an organization by the following:

· An advantage of having more skilled and well-performing employees and thus better service

· Greater employee retention

· Human resources are utilized to its fullest

· Greater possibilities of attaining goals and success

· The succession plan is planned and drawn in advance

· Developed skill set and expertise of the employees

· Communication within the workplace and organization as a whole is improved

· Company culture and ethics gets strengthened

The effects of Mentoring and Coaching sessions:

The effectiveness and impact of coaching and mentoring sessions to the individuals working in an organization work in the following ways:-

· There is a collaborative environment in the workplace wherein professional training is productive, and employees are willing and committed to expand, improve and develop themselves.

· The management recognizes the requirements of the employees for professional learning that must be attained to raise organizational standards and yardsticks.

· There are standard methods and sets of styles for mentoring and coaching programs.

· To incorporate coaching and to mentor, the work roles of employees are redefined.

· The appointed coaches/mentors have the critical personal and professional characteristics and experiences needed for effective coaching. These experts also provide constant coaching and improvement required for the development of the employees.

· The employees also understand the requirement and duty of attaining professional as well as personal growth.

· Thus there is an all-round assessment of the effect of coaching/mentoring on individuals and the organization.

How Coaching/Mentoring benefits one and all?

Coaching/Mentoring yields significant benefits to the organization, the individuals and the coach or mentors themselves. Thus the implementation of coaching and mentoring in the workplace becomes an excellent contribution to the overall development of the individual and organizations. This is why these programs are incorporated as a regular practice in the organizational system in the present time.