BUS 610 Week 6 DQ 2 Coaching and Mentoring Differentiate between coaching and mentoring. Provide an example to support how either of the two was used successfully in your current or past work life. Coaching is a relatively new technique and is growing in popularity. Coaching involves placing an expert with a trainee on his or her job over a period of weeks or months to provide continuous feedback and guidance on how to improve (Baack, 2012). Mentoring involves formal and informal support provided by an experienced and higher-ranking employee to a trainee or new manager. Mentoring includes the development of a trainee with the objective of increasing the employee’s competencies, achievements, and understanding of the organization (Baack, 2012). Every job I’ve had so far involved a mentor. I’ve always been trained by a higher-ranking employee or someone who had been on the job a little longer than I had. Most of the time, the person who trained me did a great job in doing it. I would always get complements on doing a good job when I was trained correctly. There was only one time were the person didn’t do a good job and I had to be retrained by someone else. The biggest problem was the fact that I picked up the person’s bad habits. Since I didn’t know anything about the job I didn’t know that I wasn’t supposed to do those things. Baack, D. (2012). Organizational behavior. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc. Downloaded from StudyXY.com ® + StudyXY Sd Ye. o> \ | iF ’ pr E \ 3 S Stu dy Anything This ContentHas been Posted On StudyXY.com as supplementary learning material. StudyXY does not endrose any university, college or publisher. Allmaterials posted are under the liability of the contributors. wv 8) www.studyxy.com