Mentoring and Coaching
Proposed value (Objective):
THE TRIGGER: You’ve gotten advice from colleagues, friends, and significant others but you really need someone who you can confide in that knows leadership and organizational effectiveness and can help you grow and succeed.
Mentoring and coaching offers three main values:
Why this is successful: (Process and Approach)
Initiation:
Routine Sessions:
Results:
Next steps
Proposed value (Objective):
THE TRIGGER: You’ve gotten advice from colleagues, friends, and significant others but you really need someone who you can confide in that knows leadership and organizational effectiveness and can help you grow and succeed.
Mentoring and coaching offers three main values:
- Dedicated attention, support, and direction from someone who only cares about your success
- A vehicle to decipher and translate your surface level challenges to root causes and core actions for you to take for improvement.
- A risk free and confidential way to expose your weaknesses and explore your personal strategy and growth
Why this is successful: (Process and Approach)
Initiation:
- Identify personal, team, and organizational strategy and goals
- Create a baseline and target for improvement
- Conduct a personal inventory of areas of development and challenge
- Establish clear and comfortable rules of engagement
Routine Sessions:
- Establish a regular cadence for sharing, developing actions, and evaluating success
- Select specific incidents and events for scrutiny and evaluation of actions and results
- Challenge the limits of your comfort and capability to achieve personal and team growth
- Focus on what is urgent and use a conscientious sounding board for best decisions and actions
Results:
- Measurable formal and informal levels of change and improvement for you and your team
- Enhanced confidence and capability dealing with prior challenges
- Heightened recognition for your contributions and your leadership/management effectiveness
- Overall contentment and demeanor and enjoyment at work
Next steps
- Personal assessment and evaluation of core characteristics for leading and managing
- Identification of specific personal and departmental goals
- Determination of appropriate schedule and timing for engagement