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Case Study An explanation of the concept of coaching and how it differs from mentoring and other L&D methods (AC 1.1)

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The coaching is a process through which a coach provides help to another individual so that the individual can achieve its goal by performing well. Usually the coach is employed by another individual who helps them in their career, business, or leadership. Sometimes coaching and mentoring are considered similar to each other, but there is a huge difference between coaching and mentoring. Coaching is done for short time period or for limited period. On the other hand, the mentoring is long term process. Mentoring is actually an association between the mentee and mentor. The approach of coaching is more formal and structured than mentoring as it is for a specific period of time with short time set goals (MacLennan, 2017).

The coach designs the whole program for coachee whereas mentor does not need any kind of preparation. The coach performs the assessment to identify the outcomes of the coaching program whereas the mentor does not perform any kind of assessment. The coach takes feedback from the individual regarding the things which they have learned and whether the coaching program has enhanced their skills or understanding or not. However mentors do not take any feedback from their mentee. In short the coaching and mentoring process are quite different from each other.

The coaching is a sort of training process that helps the learner to increase their professional and personal skills, the coach analyzes the gaps in the learner’s skillset and provides his services that based on the knowledge, experience and understanding of the specific filed in which he is training for. He provides the training program in specific period of time to eliminate the gaps in the learner. Whereas the mentor is the idealized person of the learner that has the expertise in the specific background of the study. The mentor describes the questions related goals with clarity and provides his suggestions how the mentee will achieve his goals. He enhances confidence and provides suggestion based on expertise and knowledge. The time period of coaching is more than other training program. It is different from the mentoring and training program in this way that the learner is taken as the expert in coaching while the mentor and trainer is the expert with respect to their program.

 In mentoring the relationship is life as well as it makes on the personal basis. While coaching the relationship with coach and learner is based on the professional experiences and the learner is the owner of the coaching program (Jones & Guillaume., 2016).

Descriptions of 3 different types of coaching and 2 different styles of coaching (AC 1.2) 

There are different types of coaching which the coach provides to their clients or individuals who employed them. The coach is specialized in their field regarding whom they provide coaching to their clients. Some of the most common types of coaching include business coaching, leadership coaching, and career coaching. The business coach provides information regarding entrepreneurship and how to establish the business. Career coach guides their client regarding the career which is best suitable for them. The leadership coach develops leadership skills in their clients. The leadership coach increases various skills in the individual which are highly essential for becoming a good leader (Salehzadeh, 2017).

The coach utilizes various coaching styles for providing coaching to the individuals. There are 4 types of coaching styles, which include dominance, influence, steady and conscientious. Many coaches around the world use influence style of coaching. The reason for using influence style is because they want to influence their clients so that they can achieve their goals. The coach interacts with their clients and convinces them to perform certain tasks, which will lead them to success. Some coaches use steady style of coaching in which they listen to their clients and then give them necessary information regarding how they can achieve their life goals.

The autocratic and democratic styles are both used in the coaching as well as in mentoring. It depends upon the coachee or mentee and their specific outcomes. The effectiveness of both types is related to the situation. In the democratic style, the decision is made with the consent and participation of the whole team, while in the autocratic practices the coach or mentee is all in all in the providing training as the decision is made by one person. Usually for the young and inexperienced learner, autocratic style is more effective than democratic as they have less experience and they are on the track of learning. On the other hand, in the case of experienced coachee or mentee, the democratic style is impactful that is aimed to create more confidence and performance consistency by working on the loops holes in performance.

 In the directive coaching style, the coach or mentor directly participate in the process of the achieving set-goals of performance. They assist and give the instruction, guidance, advices, and help to make the road map to the learner, therefore, they role is more influencing. In the directive approach the mentee is benefited with the shared experience and the solution is also suggested by the mentor or coach.

On the other hand in the non- directive approach the coach and mentor plays a supportive role in achieving the set-goals. The mentee just gets help from the coach or mentor to achieve his decided goals. The mentor and coach just help the mentee/coachee in diagnosing his issue and problems by getting knowledge and information by the coach and find their way to resolve the issue. Both approaches of coaching depend on the level of understanding, experience and nature of goals he aimed to achieve (Salehzadeh, 2017).  

An analysis of the stages in a one-to-one coaching process and the roles of coach and coachee (AC 1.3) 

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The coaching process has 5 stages, which include planning, observation, analysis, evaluation, and feedback. In the planning stage the coach plans the coaching program and designs the whole program for the coachee. In this stage the coach provides the initial information to the coachee. In this stage the coach guides the coachee regarding how it can achieve its desired goal and what are the ways of achieving goal. The second stage is the observation stage in which coach enhances the knowledge and skill of the coachee. In this stage the coachee learns new skills which are necessary for the coachee to achieve its goal.

The third stage of the coaching process is the analysis stage in which the coach analyzes the performance of the coachee to know whether the coaching program has successfully carried out or not. After the analysis the coach evaluates the performance and skills of the coachee. In this stage the coach evaluates how efficiently the individual has learned the skills. The last stage of coaching process is the feedback stage in which coach takes the feedback from the individual. The positive feedback means that the goal of caching program has successfully been achieved.

The role of the coach at every stage is considerable as at the initial stage of observation, the coach focuses on to find the loop holes that are needed to be filled to achieve the goals of the Coachee. Following this, the coach plans for the improvement of the performance and he selects different models and techniques to achieve the focused goals. At reaching the third stage, the coach implements the decided solution. After he evaluate the impact of the applied models and techniques whether they are effective in achieving the set-goals or there is need to make further improvement. At the final stage, the coach take the feedback of the after in terms of the performance of the coach.

Similarly, in the coaching process, the role of coachee is also important as at every stage, his active participation is required to achieve the goals. The coache take part in the coaching process by acting and practicing on the models and techniques that are facilitated by the coach as a way to reach the decided goals. The coach’s performance also depends on the Coachee response and efforts. The feedback of the coach’ efforts appeared in terms of the coachee performance (Stenbom, 2016).

6. Descriptions of a typical mentoring process and the roles of mentor and mentee (AC 2.2) 

The mentoring process has basically four phases, which include Preparing, Negotiating, Enabling, and closure. In the first phase the mentor provides initial guidance to the mentee. It is the stage of discovering the mentoring relationship. In this phase the mentor tries to build relationship with the mentee. The mentor tries to build trust between them so that mentee can be influenced to achieve its goal. The context is developed for the learning partnership. The second phase of the mentoring process is the negotiation phase. It is the business stage. In this phase mentor share their own experience with the mentee so that the knowledge and skills of the person can be enhanced. The mentee takes guidance from mentors and increases its knowledge. A learning agreement is created to set ground rules and shared responsibilities. The working boundaries are also set (Russell & Russell, 2011).

The third phase of the mentoring process is enabling. It is the working stage. In this phase the mentor influences its mentee to make decisions through which it can achieve its desired goal. The mentor assists the mentee in making the right decision, which will allow mentee to achieve success. The learning challenges of the mentee are also addressed.  The mentor provides guidance and expertise so that the mentee's performance and knowledge enhance with the passage of time. The last phase of the mentoring process is closure. It is the reflecting stage. The values of the relationship are assessed. Areas of learning and growth are identified. The learning outcomes are celebrated. The relationship between the mentor and mentee is for a long time and depends on mutual trust and honesty.

8. Explanations of 2 models and 2 techniques which can be used in coaching and mentoring and how these can support individual learning. (AC 3.1) 

The OSCAR model of coaching & mentoring can be used for providing coaching to individuals. The OSCAR model was developed by Karen Whittle worth and consider among the most used models. The Oscar model is an acronym of Outcome, Situation, Choices, Actions, and Review.  In the first step identify the outcome which the individual wants to achieve. Then clarifying the salutation of the individual is necessary. In the third step different choices are considered from which the best chic is chosen in the action step. After that the choice is then reviewed.

Another model that is used for implementing the coaching and mentoring process is the GROW model of coaching and mentoring. The GROW model stands for Goal, Reality, Options, and will. This model is similar to OSCAR model because the OSCAR model is the enhanced form of GROW model.

There are some techniques that every mentor or coach has to use for couching. The first tool is related to the coaching tool. The couch has to give five minutes per session that the couches are able to analyze the progress. The next technique is that the couch has to set a SMART goal for couching. The reason is that through this, he is able to complete his task in the required time. Moreover, the next technique is related to effective coaching. In that technique, he has demonstrated how the members are able to share their knowledge in an effective way. The couches must have to use another technique that is related to writing. He must have to write the strength and weakness of every member and then deal with the member according to its power. 

The Johari funnel interview is used as a technique in coaching and mentoring. In the Johari funnel interview the process based on the following model;

As per the above funnel technique it can be seen that the process is based on the 4 stages of development in which the at the initial stage the introduction takes place between the coach/mentor and coachee/mentee. The purpose of the coaching and mentoring are discussed to an understanding about the goals.

The second stage of the research is based on the general discussion about the focused topic along with the question/answers session about the attitude and aims towards the goals.

The third stage is about the awareness where the development process starts by discussing the ultimate goals and objectives. The attitude towards the proposed goals is analyzed.

At this stage, the coach and mentor suggest the specific solution towards the proposed goals (MacLennan, 2017).

You should also include 3-5 references from up-to-date and relevant sources in order to support your findings. Please ensure that all reference sources are acknowledged correctly within the text and on a reference list provided.

Jones, R. J., & Guillaume., Y. R. (2016). The effectiveness of workplace coaching: A metaanalysis of learning and performance outcomes from coaching. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 89(2), 249-277.

MacLennan, N. (2017). Coaching and mentoring. Routledge.

Russell, M. L., & Russell, J. A. (2011). Mentoring Relationships: Cooperating Teachers' Perspectives on Mentoring Student Interns. Professional Educator, 35(1), 1.

Salehzadeh, R. (2017). "Which types of leadership styles do followers prefer? A decision tree approach. International Journal of Educational Management, 31(7), 865-877.

Stenbom, S. M. (2016). Revising the community of inquiry framework for the analysis of one-to-one online learning relationships. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 17(3).

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