Coaching and Mentoring for Business Leaders: A Comprehensive Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of coaching and mentoring practices for business leaders. It begins with an executive summary and introduction, followed by an exploration of significant learning experiences for coaches and mentors, including classroom discussions and fun activities. The report delves into the GROW theory, detailing how it informs coaching approaches. It examines the impact of self-awareness on coaching effectiveness and identifies key elements of effective coaching and mentoring. The report also discusses the strengths and limitations of different coaching approaches, such as the use of games and discussions in the classroom. Finally, it explores how reflective practice can be continued in a professional context, concluding with a summary of the key findings and a list of references.

Coaching And
Mentoring For
Business Leaders
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Through coaching practices an individual increase their skills, abilities and capabilities
for performing particular job in effective manner. There are different approaches which can be
adopted by a coach in order to conduct their work properly such as conducting fun activities at
class, conduct regular discussion. In order to implement these approach a coach need to adopt
different theories such as GROW theory. Along with this there are some advantages and
disadvantages of approach which adopted coach so it is essential for them to conduct proper
evaluation before adopting any strategy.
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Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY ................................................................................................................................4
What learning experiences do you believe are significant for you as a coach/mentor?.........4
What theory/research informs your coaching/mentoring approach?......................................5
What impact does self-awareness have on your approach?...................................................5
What is effective coaching/mentoring practice?....................................................................6
What coaching/mentoring strengths are apparent in your approach?....................................6
What coaching/mentoring limitations are apparent in your approach?..................................7
How might you continue reflective practice in your professional context?...........................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFRENCES...................................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION
Coaching and mentoring is main practices through which an individual able to increase
their skills, abilities and knowledgeable for conducting a specific work. Through this a person
able to minimise errors as well as it lead to increase in productivity (Dixey, 2015). Their is minor
difference between coaching and mentoring, coaching refers to follow of structured as well as
formal approach. On the other hand mentoring focuses on creating information association
among mentor and mentee. Topics included in this report are significance experience of coach
and mentor, theory related to respective approach, impact of self awareness, effective of
coaching or mentoring practices. Moreover it will also include strength and limitation of
approach as well as it will also define reflective practices.
MAIN BODY
What learning experiences do you believe are significant for you as a coach/mentor?
Learning experience refers to interaction, program, course and other experiences through
which learning take place. This can be done through two settings i.e. traditional academic
settings like classrooms as well as non traditional academic settings which is conducted at
outside environment. There are numbers of learning experiences which are effective or
significant for a coach because through it they able to perform their work effectively as well as it
will also help them in increasing learning of a student. Some of the learning experiences which
are effective for me in order to perform duty of coach are given below:-
 Discussion questions in class: According to this I need to discussed question as well as
topics in class because it help in building effective relationship among coach and students
(Grotrian-Rya, 2015). Moreover it will also increase learning or remembering capacity of
students.
 Fun and game learning: By implementing this experience I able to encourage students
to conduct learning or study as well as it will also minimise stress of students in effective
manner.
According to me these are main learning experience which help them in performing work
of a good coach.
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What theory/research informs your coaching/mentoring approach?
My teaching or coaching approach are I discussed things in classrooms as well as I
include fun and game learning. This is so because through it I able to encourage and motivate
students to conduct learning so that they can grow in future. Moreover in order to this I use a
theory i.e. GROW theory (Goal, Reality, Opportunity and Will/ Wrap up), explanation of which
is given below:-
 Goal: In order to implement this stage I discuss what student want to do in future because
through it they able to develop their goal.
 Reality: At this I conduct fun and game activities through which they can analyse where
are they now. By this they can analyse their gap and then develop strategies accordingly
(GROW Model, 2019).
 Opportunities: After that I discuss in class that what are the practices students can
conduct in order to attain their future goal.
 Will/ Wrap-up: In this stage I conduct discussion with students that how they can
develop strategies in order to attain their desire goal.
Through GROW theory I able to implement my coaching approach in effective manner
as well as it will also help me in motivating and encouraging students to conduct their studies
properly.
What impact does self-awareness have on your approach?
Self awareness is considered as capacity related to introspection as well as abilities for
recognising oneself as a person separate from other individual and environment (Korth, 2016). It
is also considered as understanding self need, habits, desire and other factors which help in
attaining desire goal as well as objectives. Moreover self awareness also impact on the activities
which are performed by an individual (Laukhuf and Malone, 2015). Similarity while
implementing my coaching approach I also feel that self awareness impacted on my working
because if I am aware about any thing properly then their will high change that I will perform
task effectively. Along with this, self awareness also help in minimising error that may take
place when I am performing my duty of coach. This will also help me managing my time in
properly through which I can attain my desire goal as well as it will also aid me in encouraging
students so that they can attain their goal successfully.
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What is effective coaching/mentoring practice?
There are numbers factors which show effectiveness of coaching practices which a
student or individual, from which some main are mentioned below:-
 Through coaching practices individuals able to perform effective that help them in
targeting desire goal as well as it also increase their work quality (Lawrence, 2017).
 Coaching practices also help increase openness to the personal learning as well as
development among the students.
 This will also enhanced ability to determine solutions in order to specific work related
problem or issues.
 Coaching practices leads to great ownership as well as responsibilities among students.
 Adaptation of coaching practices also help in developing self awareness which leads to
enhancement in skills, abilities, behaviour and knowledge.
 Coaching practices also help in providing clearly in desire goal as well as objectives.
 Through coaching practices an individual able to correct their behaviour as well as
performance according to situation or difficulties (MacLennan, 2017).
These are the main effectiveness of implementation or providing coaching practices to
students or individual.
What coaching/mentoring strengths are apparent in your approach?
My coaching style or approach is to conduct fun and game at classroom so that student
get attracted toward classroom culture and get encourage to conduct study. Along with this I also
conduct discussion at classroom because through that I able to understand student need and
capabilities as that will help me in developing strategies accordingly. There are several strengths
of my coaching approach which are mentioned below:-
 By conducting discussion at the classroom I able to understand need, requirement and
capabilities of students, then accordingly I frame strategies to teach or coach them so that
they can attain their desire goal.
 Conducting discussion in class help me in minimising or removing fear of performance in
group from students (Wasylyshyn, 2015). This is so because by taking participation in
classroom discussion students able to increase their confidence as well as it will also help
in increasing their performance.
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 By conducting fun and game activities I able to develop as well as maintain effective
relationship with students which help in encouraging them for attain goal or developing
proper future.
What coaching/mentoring limitations are apparent in your approach?
Every thing has its positive and negative aspects, similarly my coaching approach that
include discussion in class as well as use of fun and game also have some limitation (Neupane,
2015). So it is essential for coach to conduct proper analysis so that they can develop strategies
accordingly and effectively. Some of the main limitations of my coaching approach are given
below:-
 Conducting fun and games at the classroom is time taking approach due to which there is
chance that student not able to accomplish their syllabus properly and successfully
(Reams and Reams, 2015).
 Implementation of fun and game approach also leads to addition in the budget because
for conduct fun and game coach required some equipments which directly impact on the
budget.
 Conducting discussion in the class lead to increase to increase in time as well as at class
there are some students who are introvert then this approach may develop stress on them.
By which student not able to perform effectively as well as sometime it will also leads to
increase in absenteeism of students.
How might you continue reflective practice in your professional context?
Reflective practice is considered as tool which help an individual to enhance their
analytical skills because in this a person need to express their thinking as well as it will also help
in analysing significant of what they are thinking in particular way (Passmore, 2015). Moreover
there are different tool or techniques which help me in continuing my reflective practices in my
professional context. This include preparing dairy on daily basis so that I can evaluate my
performance and effectiveness on the regular basis. Moreover I will also take feedbacks from
others as through that I can understand my strength as well as weakness related to my
professional career. Along with this they also provide me appropriate suggestions and reviews
according to experiences and performance.
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CONCLUSION
By analysing above discussed point it can be determine and summarise that for a student
mentoring and coaching plays an essential role. This is so because through it they able to
understand effectiveness of their studies as well as they also get proper guideline which help
them in studies. There are different approaches of conducting coaching such as using online
teaching material, conduct fun and game activities, discussed in classroom and so on. There are
different theories and research which can be adopted by a coach in order to perform their duty
properly such as GROW theory. There are several advantage and disadvantage of conducting a
particular coaching approach so it is essential for coach to develop strategies accordingly.
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REFRENCES
Books and Journals
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Korth, J., 2016. Communication and coaching: keys to developing future nurse leaders. Nurse
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Laukhuf, R. L. and Malone, T. A., 2015. Women entrepreneurs need mentors. International
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Lawrence, P., 2017. Managerial coaching-A literature review. International Journal of Evidence
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MacLennan, N., 2017. Coaching and mentoring. Routledge.
Neupane, R., 2015. Effects of coaching and mentoring on employee performance in the UK hotel
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Passmore, J. ed., 2015. Excellence in coaching: The industry guide. Kogan Page Publishers.
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Wasylyshyn, K.M., 2015. The trusted leadership advisor: Another view from the bridge between
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