Coaching and Mentoring

Coaching and mentoring are time-honored practices in the workplace.

Most people in the workplace receive some coaching during careers even if it only for a limited time.Everyone stands to benefit from effective coaching in core and advanced skills at different times. The most common recipients of coaching tend to be junior or middle managers. Coaching is valuable in the cases of Shortage of talent, starting up a business, structural changes, new recruits, fast trackers, senior executives, poor performers, and users of new technology.

	To set goals
	To examine tactics
	To set targets
	To challenge assumptions
	To point out weaknesses
	To maximize strengths
	To provide feedback
	To provide focus

Most employees would benefit from the care, consideration and attention to detail that formal or informal mentoring can provide for career development. However certain types of employees or working situations demonstrate urgent need for mentoring fellows such as new company hires, new department hires, high potential employees, low-achieving employees, people on career breaks, and motivated staff.

Basic features of mentoring at ZICON:

	To develop skills
	To plan the future
	To encourage accountability
	To share, not instruct
	To provide a role model
	To focus on goals
	To support