Coaching and Mentoring

Robert McLemore
Lisa Wright
Coaching & Mentoring
 Coaching & Mentoring
Listen Pay
Attention Unique
Needs
 Coaching & Mentoring
Mentor

Coach
 Coach
Someone who develops skills and
capabilities in another person or in a
group of people (a team)

Forms of coaching:
• Discussion
• Lecture
• Critique
• Guided practice
 What Coaches Do
• Provide task direction and vision
• Provide skill instruction
• Build team and individual capabilities
• Provide resources
• Facilitate external relationships for individuals
and teams
• Transfer responsibility for success to the team
• Support the growth and progress of individuals
in the program
 Tips: Good Coach
• LISTEN!!!!!
• Supply energy
• Provide focus
• Provide information
• Influence, don’t control
• Recognize team and individual success
• Recognize what’s right versus what’s wrong
• Value differences
• Evolve and grow with the team’s life cycle
 Mentor
A trusted guide and advisor
 What Mentors Do
• Advise, support, provide guidance
• Help develop an understanding of
“culture” and life in the unit
• Instill attitudes and values
• Aid in retention in the program
• Provide opportunity to help a person
grow through discovery
 Tips: Good Mentor
• LISTEN!!!!!!
• Provide a safe environment
 Keep confidences
• Build trust early
• Share through personal experiences
• Offer suggestions
 Coaching & Mentoring
Coaching Mentoring
Goals •Correct inappropriate Support & guide the personal
behavior growth
•Improve performance
•Impart skills
Initiative Coach directs the Mentee is in charge of learning.
learning & instruction.
Focus Immediate problems & Long-term personal
learning opportunities development
Roles Heavy on telling with Heavy on listening, providing a
appropriate feedback role model, & making
suggestions and connections
Coaches & Mentors

Yoda
G.A. Moore
Debrief
 Summary

• Listen!!!
• Always something you don’t know
• Coaching helps people grow
• Coaches are committed
 Summary

• Mentors do heavy listening

• Mentors build long term
relationships
• Mentors support and guide
• Mentors help clarify
• Neither knows it all
– No one ever does
Thank YOU