Coaching & Mentoring
At Butterfly People Development we offer both.
"Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximise their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them." John Whitmore
What is coaching?
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Put simply, coaching is a process that aims to improve performance and focuses on the ‘here and now’ rather than on the distant past or future.
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While there are many different models of coaching, here we are not considering the ‘coach as expert’ but, instead, the coach as a facilitator of learning.
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There is a huge difference between teaching someone and helping them to learn. In coaching, fundamentally, the coach is helping the individual to improve their own performance: in other words, helping them to learn.
What is Mentoring?
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Mentoring is similar to coaching. There is general agreement that a mentor is a guide who helps someone to learn or develop faster than they might do alone.
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In the workplace mentors are often formally designated as such by mutual agreement, and outside of an individual’s line management chain. They usually have considerable experience and expertise in the individual’s line of business.
"Good coaches believe that the individual always has the answer to their own problems but understands that they may need help to find the answer."
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If you are looking to change role or career direction, seeking a promotion or going through redundancy or retirement, we can help you with the transition.
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As a result of 121 coaching, it will help identify what you need, this is when mentoring will come into play, and we can then provide you with the knowledge and tools to assist you in your goals through targeted learning and continued professional development.
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Both can be offered face to face or virtually.