Unlock Your Full Potential: Mastering the Art of Coaching and Mentoring Skills

Why is Coaching and Mentoring Skills important in today’s business environment?

At Bodhih, Coaching and Mentoring Skills workshops talk about preparation in detail – essentially ways to maximize knowledge transfer, to increase skill levels, and for succession planning. When a Coaching and Mentoring skills program is implemented the main beneficiaries are the coach or mentor, employee or the mentee, the department and the organization. The key word that differentiates Coaching from any other nearby term is “facilitating”. The coach is there to bring out the latent potential in the coachee and the assumption is that the employee has the ability to actually think for themselves.

What are the downsides if Coaching and Mentoring Skills are absent?

Coaching and Mentoring Skills and programs are absent in a company, there are wasted opportunities, non-inspirational workplaces, poor trust in relationships, and overall drop in quality of delivery.

What does Bodhih’s Coaching and Mentoring Skills training cover?

Bodhih’s Coaching and Mentoring Skills workshops explores elements that make an effective coach, the attitude needed for effective Coaching, types of Coaching, Contextual best practices that are part of high-quality Coaching and Mentoring programs.

Kicking off with presentations and group discussions, Bodhih’s Coaching and Mentoring Skills program

Asks participants to bring their real-world experiences to understand the role of a coaches in organizations. Through interactive delivery, the trainer talks about how an effective coach has belief in human potential, he or she focusses on learning, lets the coachee do the work, listens actively, and sets up a performance management system as a support for the Coaching activity.

What are the Coaching skills for Managers?

Learners through insightful analysis discover the various attitudes that differentiate winning coaches. The class facilitator brings to the fore, qualities like flexibility, responsibility, assuming humility and increasing available choices for change intervention through continuous improvement. Through role plays, Bodhih’s facilitator ignites interest and class engagement to understand the differences between directive Coaching (push styles, solution centric and giving instructions) and non-directive Coaching (pull styles, helps others solve their own problems, and listens and understands).

What are the elements of Coaching skills training?

The next session of the Coaching and Mentoring in the workplace is focussed on the context in which the Coaching activity takes places. Through group activity, and facilitator led discussions, the participants practice identifying the three elements – clarity, trust, and communication – in the context that binds the individual, the coach and the organization. The basic elements of Coaching are then practiced real time – beginning with the situations when the coachee was unsuccessful – and with class participation, Bodhih’s trainer highlights six ways of successful Coaching – using feedback, through appraisal review, through a team agreement, through individual agreement, through use of practice clients and finally, as part of a change program or work based projects.

The important Coaching and Mentoring skills for leadership success revolves around understanding and creating an effective Coaching and Mentoring framework.

Bodhih’s facilitators are seasoned professionals who create linkages between skills picked up in the workshops and then to apply them in participant’s current roles. This is done through specific illustrations and analogies and is true for the next session at the Coaching and Mentoring Skills training –Designing a Coaching program.

Effective Coaching and Mentoring strategies need to be aligned with the vision of the company and the teams that operate inside the climate.

This session uses class exercises, games, role play and facilitator presentations to first detail how the Coaching and Mentoring goals are aligned with the overall strategy of the organization. Learners next are handheld through the relevant phases of the session design, namely, contracting the activity, goal setting, Coaching session, and interim & final review sessions.

At Bodhih, Coaching and Mentoring skills in the workplace program is a popular session that is part of a larger Leadership skills training suite.

The session draws richly from research done on Coaching and Mentoring skills across the global industries and cultures.

The session draws richly from research done on Coaching and Mentoring skills across the global industries and cultures.

This section enunciates the importance of communication, providing feedback, and giving instructions. Class learners though individual exercises and debrief, comprehend the specific Coaching and Mentoring model – the GROW approach.

As a part of this insightful session, the learners are introduced to the GROW model: G (Goal for the session), R (Reality, look at the current and proposed situations), O (Options that are available) and W (wrap up, clarity around expectations, actions to be taken, support required and commitment from both parties)

How would you gain from India’s best Coaching and Mentoring Skills in the workplace program at Bodhih?

Bodhih customizes its Coaching and Mentoring Skills for leadership success along the ADDIE model. Workshop experiences are analysed, designed, developed and delivered that are solution focused and include a range of blended training pedagogy such as role plays, group exercises, self-assessment tools, management games, individual activities, videos, case studies, facilitation, discussions and more.

In addition to the ADDIE model, the effective Coaching and Mentoring in the workplace programs takes advantage of the experiential adult-learning process of concrete experience – reflective observation – abstract conceptualization – active experimentation.

The edge in Bodhih’s Mentoring Skills and competencies course comes from researched industry learnings, current best practices and academic insights. The workshop takeaways ensure that learnings are grasped and applied at all levels within a company and its individuals. The long-term benefits are to institutionalise Coaching and Mentoring Skills by embedding effective Coaching techniques, and the GROW model.

What is Bodhih’s promise on how to improve Mentoring skills workshops?

Managers across industries and functions and executive level participants who have attended Bodhih’s sessions on Mentoring and Coaching in the workplace talk of the changed individual behaviours namely, how Coaching and Mentoring fundamentals are implemented enterprise wide, and how the succession pipeline has grown through time, along with a clear measure of transmitting best practices and company values.