UPSCcoaching Indore - Preparation Tips For All Level Competitive Exams
Both coaching and mentoring involve help and support by a senior person (in competence, experience, expertise, and position) to a younger one. Three processes are involved in both coaching and mentoring: communication, empowering and helping. Communication involves both receiving messages (listening), giving messages (responding), and giving feedback. The IAS Coaching Center or the mentor does all these. The process of empowering involves enabling the other person to exercise more autonomy, providing positive reinforcement so that desirable behavior is further strengthened, and creating conditions in which the person is able to learn from the behavior of the supervisor or the mentor. Concern and empathy of the coach or the mentor for the employee is the basis of helping behavior. It is also involves mutuality of relationship; the employee responds as much to the coach's needs as the coach or the mentor does to the employee's needs. Finally, helping primarily involves ident