A Comprehensive Report on Coaching, Mentoring, and Learners' Needs

This report delves into the distinctions between coaching and mentoring, emphasizing their roles in individual learning and professional development. It identifies key differences, such as coaching being task-oriented and short-term while mentoring is relationship-oriented and long-term. The report examines the roles and responsibilities of a coach, including enabling students to identify their needs, providing individualized learning and guidance, and offering encouragement. It also presents various strategies and resources to aid students, such as problem-solving, providing examples, and encouragement. Furthermore, the report outlines three agencies that can enhance skills and knowledge, along with strengths and areas for improvement in one-to-one teaching situations. Finally, it proposes opportunities to improve relational skills and time management, and concludes by emphasizing the importance of coaching and mentoring in fostering student growth and development.

Working with
Individual Learners

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
A. Differences between coaching and mentoring ......................................................................1
B. Reflecting and reviewing the effectiveness of own role in helping students.........................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................2
a) Strategies and resources help student......................................................................................2
b) Three agencies that will help to improve their skills and knowledge.....................................3
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................4
A. Strengths and areas for improvement in relation to one-to-one teaching and learning
situations.....................................................................................................................................4
B. Plan opportunities...................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Mentoring and coaching are both related terms in an individual's learning phase; both
these terms are essential for a person as these help him or her to develop skills and knowledge.
Each and every student or individual needs to learn and develop certain skills which are
important for personal as well as career development. This report will identify major differences
in between coaching and mentoring (Callahan-Ferris, 2016). The present report will also
determine effectiveness in the role of mentor or coach. Furthermore, this report will also
determine various strategies and resources which can be helpful for the student. In addition to
this, five action plans will be developed in report which can help in improving the personal
skills.
TASK 1
A. Differences between coaching and mentoring
There are many differences in between coaching and mentoring which are described as
below -
1. Coaching is task oriented whereas mentoring is relationship oriented – Coaching
focuses on a specific issue or problem like speaking strictly, managing effectively as well
as thinking strategically (Owen, 2016). This needs a special coach who is able to teach
his or her student opt to build various skills. On the other hand, mentoring supports to
offer a safe environment where the students or learners can discuss all problems or issues
they are facing or affecting their personal and professional success.
2. Coaching is for short term and mentoring is long termed – A coach shows his or her
involvement with the learner for a short period. It can be a small session when needed.
This time, period depends upon the coaching relationship purpose. On the other hand,
mentoring takes more time so that both; the mentor and mentee can learn or develop their
skills. Mentoring helps in building trust relationship among each other
Roles and Responsibilities of Coach Enabling students so that they can identify their needs: The role and responsibility of
coach is to enable students where they can be able to identify their own needs and
preferences (Yeldham, 2017). Coach plays a crucial role in enhancing the needs of
students.
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 Individualised learnings: The role of coach is to promote individualised learning where
they have to provide specific guidelines to the students so that they can enhance their
learning effectively and efficiently. Providing precise guidance: The role of coach is to provide precise and appropriate
guidance to his or her mentee so that theircomprehension skills and other competencies
can be enhanced.
 Encouraging and challenging: The coach encourage their students and mentees time to
time and challenge them by increasing level of assessment so that the growth and
development of students can be made.
B. Reflecting and reviewing the effectiveness of own role in helping students
In order to assess the effectiveness in my role in helping students, I have utilised and
implemented following methods such as initial self-assessment, recognising preferred learning
style, enabling students in identifying their own learning needs, empowerment of individual
students through emphasising own responsibility and self-evaluation. These methods help me
greatly in enhancing my comprehension and coaching skills through which I was able to provide
adequate learning and education to my students. My self-learning skills are not limited to these
methods (Hood, 2015). I have enhanced my level of coaching skills through acquiring feedbacks
from colleagues, self-reflection and self-assessment. Thus, in this manner, I was able to enhance
my effectiveness in my role of helping students.
TASK 2
a) Strategies and resources help student
There are various types of strategies that are helpful for the growth of development and it
will help for growth of relation between mentor and their men tees. There are some strategies
used for the development of student like:
Problem solving planning- I will always follow the special strategies for solving the problem
therefore, it is very helpful for mentee to increase their interest towards solution. Mentor will
help to provide information and support for their development (Guzman-Orth, 2015). I will
ensure the eradication and rectification of problems which are barriers in growth and
development of myself, my mentee or organization.
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Being a good example–I will provide the best information and give so many examples for
mentee to get motivate so that they will perform very well and give their best. I will give
important example to provide the importance of skills, knowledge and their daily life. In this
way, it will fulfil the requirement and solving the problem of mentee.
Encouragement- I will give so much information regarding real world and motivate them so that
they will perform function in very efficient and effectively. In this way, they will achieve their
gaols and target in his life.
b) Three agencies that will help to improve their skills and knowledge
There are many agencies available in market that are not only provide the best services
but also providing proper guidance related with career and future (Grey, 2015). There are some
factor is help at the time of one to one coaching, monitoring and teaching of every student. As a
mentor, various agencies and firms will consult that will help me to not only provide proper
guidance Problem solving strategies: I will follow problem-solving plan of action that will assist
me to computer address mentee's face-to-face and professed difficulty that will assistance
to guarantee his better maturation and improvement. I will also look subsequently
refining and obliteration of issues that will suppress mentee's, mine or organizational
growing and improvement.
 Encouragement: In this context, promote students or mentee's to execute and give out
their prizewinning in order to better their accomplishment set and meting of reference
point end and human action (Baldwin, 2015). It is help to improve current performance of
every student.
KPA consultancy- This organization is provided with an effective recruiting process for student
and giving a service related training and development. In this way, students will enhance their
skills and knowledge.
Link port consultancy- This organization is provided with a good training program to build
gain knowledge on particular field. In this way, they will increase the skills in a proper manner.
Flexible Limited- This agency will provide a facility for financial and it will increase their
performance effectively.
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A referral, in the most basic sense, is a written order from your primary care doctor to see
a specialist for a specific medical service (Baldwin, 2015). Some factor is to give direct impact
on referral process are as follows:
I. Well-educated physician who do not reckon down referral would addition their
employment and those with a more across-the-board perceptive of infirmary and down referral
cognitive process were more likely to make a down referral determination (Grey, 2015). This is
help to take new decision and cost saving.
TASK 3
A. Strengths and areas for improvement in relation to one-to-one teaching and learning situations
As an effective manner better fulfilment of roles and responsibilities is one of the most
important part in organisation. This is help to increase awareness about current market level and
overall development.
Strengths
Administration: The mentorship was to enhance my authority characteristics and
bolstered a superior development of my abilities at work put.
Critical thinking approach: The chance of mentorship helped me to enhance my critical
thinking methodology and ability to deal with any kind of issues viably.
There are some different factors is help to improve and help to overall development are
as follows:
 Relational abilities: As a tutor, I found that I have to work upon my relational abilities to
assemble a decent association with my mentee's.
 Time administration: I found that as a coach, I need to manage and finish my and
additionally mentee's work in stipulated time allotment that will help in great ascent in
the activities and meeting of focused objectives.
 Focus - To be focus on each and every factors to be improve current market network and
increase overall performance level (Grey, 2015). The federal agency covers the inside
information and action of the fiscal social control of other arrangement. Mentoring at
such activity place is a very captious and skill heighten chance, supply the efficacious
chance to better the cognition about pull off various single in a very effectual manner.
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B. Plan opportunities
 Speaking with the mentee's and work put administration to build my adequacy and
activities that will help in better ascent in my relational cooperation aptitudes with others.
 Normal appraisal of the activities and giving the criticism tro the understudies s a decent
medium to build up balanced learning.
 Recognizing necessities and prerequisites of people at the workplace will encourage a
decent correspondence and collaboration prompting great learning in working
environment.
 A superior appraisal of work and arranging of the exercises will help in great ascent in
time administration of the different business activities (Grey, 2015).
 Successful arranging will help in enhancing the adequacy and productivity of an
individual in working environment.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it can be understood that coaching is considered to be a
challenging task. In this context, this report able provide difference between coach and mentor.
The report also summarise the roles and responsibilities of coach in helping students. The
strategies and resources used in assisting students has been identified and eventually action plan
has been developed. The report also determined various strategies which can be used to help
student in their learning along with planning of opportunities.
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