How Coaching and Mentoring Help Employees and Students...

Coaching and Mentoring Vital to Success Dineace D Minnick Colorado Technical University Coaching and Mentoring Vital to Success In my opinion I feel that to be successful you truly need to line up people around you who are will to Coach and Mentor you. It also looks good for you to be seen as a Coach and Mentor. I see this as an excellent way to always have feedback and direction to help reach goals and succeed to levels of excellence. I chose this topic because my ultimate goal, within the next seven years, is to be a life coach. This will include finance, career, home, and spirit. I believe that the youth coming out of High School and College have no clue. I know I didn’t and it wasn’t until I started getting direction and†¦show more content†¦Jennifer Popevec in â€Å"Management Matters† emphasized that mentoring has changed from another word for training to building long=term relationships to help young people excel both personally and professionally. Mentoring is for someone who really wants to help someone develop to the next level, and you can’t separate the personal from the professional. Mentoring usually ends up as a form of training or coaching because it is easier than investing part of you in another person’s successes and failures. Jennifer Popovec explains that there are four generations and each generation needs different things from mentoring. The silent generation is stepping out of leadership roles but often remain in the workplace. The new leaders are coming from the baby-boom generation and the older Gen Xers. The baby-boomer and older Gen Xers are looking form long-term, relationship-driven mentoring. The young Gen Xers and Millennial have some very obvious weaknesses that can be addressed by mentoring. Gen Xers tend to be tech savvy but overall are more vulgar and less courteous than other generations. 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