What is the difference between developmental tools?

Leading: Creating environments that achieve a shared vision.

Managing: Establishing, monitoring, and controlling processes and procedures

Training/Teaching: Transferring information from a knowledgeable party to a less knowledgeable party

Mentoring: Providing advice and perspective from experience

Consulting: Making recommendations based on expertise

Counselling/Therapy: Helping an individual reframe the past in order to improve the future

Coaching: Developing a person through the process of rapport, assessment, feedback, planning, implementation, and evaluation

  • Rapport – Build the relationship and trust

  • Assessment – Use conversation, observation, assessments, questioning

  • Feedback – Specific points for people to understand

  • Planning – Make a success plan

  • Implementation – Work the plan

  • Evaluation – How did we do?

From Kampa-Kokesch and Anderson (2001)