Coaching or Mentoring?

How to ensure both my people and organisation are growing?

Coaching and #mentoring both can guide leaders and organisations in their development.

Both have great advantages, yet they are different.

Stellar Mentoring believes in the power of #coaching.

We are mentors and coaches. We combine the strengths of both to support individuals, leaders and organisations.

Coaching covers many areas, from individuals, leaders, and management teams to the full organisation.

In short, coaching helps the coached person realise that other options exist. They can identify resources they can access and use them.

Coaching your employees will make them grow as individuals. When you coach everyone in your organisation, it develops collaboration, cohesion and efficiency.

Mentoring is for individuals.

This is the transmission of experience and knowledge on specific topics.

It comes from someone who went through the path.

A coach helps you to find keys through tough questions.

A Mentor will provide you with solutions, examples and advice to face your challenges. He or She has already lived in similar situations. He or She can share what he or she did that worked or not.

Let’s take an example:

A manager is taking a new position in your organisation as Commercial Director

• A coach helps her/him to cope with the change. He works on communication, self-confidence, leadership, facing possible fears
• A mentor has a previous experience in a similar role. This will help her/him define his/her strategy, set up a good team and develop his/her network

In both cases, the individual becomes more efficient and successful. The organisation benefits from it.

In conclusion, Coaching and Mentoring work together hand in hand. Both are beneficial and valuable tools. They address different aspects of work efficiency.