Coaching and Mentoring

Coaching & Mentoring

The use of Leadership Coaches and Mentors has long been a tool used by the private sector organizations to develop leaders to their full potential.  Less commonly used in the Fire Service, coaches can help you set and reach goals, creatively solve problems, identify blind spots and move forward.  Mentorship is more common in Fire and Emergency services but is often informal and sometimes haphazard. 

With Parow Consulting both your coaching and mentoring needs will be focused and specific to you and the organizational needs. You will be matched with a well experienced Fire Chief who will help you plan a path for your career and organization, moving forward.

Our Coaching and Mentoring program is uniquely designed to meet your needs to make you and your organization successful. Our program is simple:

• One on one weekly “hand-on” sessions, to directly address matters (usually and preferably face-to-face)
• Follow up and support services through virtual meetings, phone calls and emails on an ongoing basis (between the face-to-face sessions)​
• Again, each program is unique and designed to meet the current needs and expected outcomes of the organization

Return from a program of this type

An article in Public Personnel Management compared training alone to coaching combined with training. Training alone increased performance by 22.4% while training plus coaching increased performance by 88%.  Adding coaching and mentoring to the typical workplace training can have dramatic results.

Definitions

​Coaching is a form of development in which an experienced person, called a coach, supports a learner or client in achieving a specific personal or professional goal by providing training and guidance.^[1] The learner is sometimes called a coachee. Coaching differs from mentoring by focusing on specific tasks or objectives, as opposed to more general goals or overall development.

Mentoring is when someone teaches or gives help and advice to a less experienced and often younger person. In an organizational setting, a mentor influences the personal and professional growth of a mentee. Mentoring is a process for the informal transmission of knowledge, social capital, and the psychosocial support perceived by the recipient as relevant to work, career, or professional development; mentoring entails informal communication, usually face-to-face and during a sustained period of time, between a person who is perceived to have greater relevant knowledge, wisdom, or experience (the mentor) and a person who is perceived to have less.