counselling

1. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN:
Counselling And Mentoring
Training And Coaching
Srishti Singh
MBA (HR & IR)
Section B
Semester IV

2. COUNSELLING
Counselling is a professional relationship that empowers diverse
individuals, families, and groups to accomplish mental health, wellness,
education, and career goals.
 Counselling is the service offered to the individual who is
under going a problem and needs professional help to
overcome it. The problem keeps him disturbed high strung
and under tension and unless solved his development is
hampered or stunted.
 Counseling therefore is a more specialized
service requiring training in personality
development and handling exceptional
groups of individuals.

3. MENTORING
“Mentoring involves primarily listening with empathy, sharing experience (usually
mutually), professional friendship, developing insight through reflection, being a
sounding board, encouraging”.
- David Clutterbuck
 Mentoring is a process of using specially selected and
trained individuals to provide guidance, pragmatic
advice, and continuing support that will help the
people in their learning and development process.
 The best example of a mentor is
Mr. N. R. Narayan Murthy of
Infosys.

4. COUNSELLING MENTORING
Mentoring is an informal
relationship.
Mentoring is intended to be a
long-term relationship.
Mentoring tends to be more
holistic.
Value the advice of a mentor
because of their character.
Mentoring, as an informal
relationship, is free.
It is harder to find a mentor.
BASIS
 Type of
Relationship
 Duration of
Relationship
 Focus of
Relationship
 Basis of Advice
 Cost
 Ease of Access
Counseling is a formal
relationship.
Counseling is intended to be a
short-term relationship.
Counseling tends to be more
problem-focused.
Training and number of individuals
in similar situations with whom
they have worked.
Requires compensation because it
is the vocation of the counselor.
One gets a referral to a counselor.

5. TRAINING
“Training is the act of increasing the skills of an employee for doing
a particular job”.
-Edwin Flippo
 It is concerned with developing a
particular skill to a desired standard by
instruction and practice.
 Training is a highly useful tool that can
bring an employee into a position where
they can do their job correctly,
effectively, and conscientiously.
 Training is the act of acquiring and
applying the knowledge, skills, abilities,
and attitudes needed by a particular job
and organization.

6. COACHING
 Coaching assists employees in getting from
where they are now, to where they want to
be with their performance.
 Coaching is for anyone who wants to be
performing at a higher level than they
currently are. It is about enhancing and
maximizing performance.
 Coaching is about performing at your best
through the individual and private assistance
of someone who will challenge, stimulate and
guide you to keep growing.
“Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own
performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.”
-John Whitmore

7. COACHINGTRAININGBASIS
Often used in group setting.
Frequently off-site or at a
special facility.
Often used for new hires.
Usually structured.
Formal.
Learning.
Skill training, upgrading skills or
skill advancement.
Usually one-on-one.
Usually on-the-job.
Usually unstructured.
Informal.
Development.
Performance or behavior
transformation.
Often used with experienced
employees.
 Emphasis is on
 Type
 Focuses on
 Structure
 Used in
 When
 Employee