Coaching, Mentoring and Managing: A Coach Guidebook

Consider a cycle, moving clockwise:

It begins as you let go; as a mentor you are giving control to

your associate. It then moves to questioning. Your associate will

then move on, exploring new challenges. As your associate

reviews and discusses, she will be looking back to look forward.

The Outcome of Effective Mentoring ................................................................

You can expect many benefits from mentoring. Your people

will grow, mature, gain confidence. You will observe them gaining

the following:

1. Awareness of organizational politics and culture


2. Appreciation of networking


3. Proactive approaches to their tasks


4. Eagerness to learn


5. Movement toward “expert” status


6. Attitude of “advocacy”

Awareness of Organizational Politics and Culture

In any organization, a lot goes on that isn’t listed in the

employee handbook. By mentoring a person whose performance is

average, you can help her avoid being stymied by office politics.

Through your actions, you can teach the person a consciousness of

“accepted” activities that she could not learn otherwise — like

who to approach with certain problems or questions and who not

Coaching, Mentoring and Managing

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Let Go

Question

Understand

Move Forward