Mentoring and coaching, and their impact on the organization
Episode #29

Mentoring and coaching, and their impact on the organization

Interview with: Agata Rybarska
Business Mentor and Executive Coach

✳️ Monika: Don’t you have the impression that there are now more female mentors and mentors than mentees themselves?
✳️ Agata: I recently looked at research that says that since the beginning of the pandemic, as many as 30% of companies have increased the number of mentoring initiatives. You might ask why? Why did it become fashionable? David Clutterbuck, the father of mentoring and co-founder of EMCC, always repeats that mentoring is the most effective form of development for people and organizations. On an individual level, it means increased satisfaction and greater self-confidence. People who worked with mentors were up to five times more likely to be promoted. Companies that have introduced mentoring into the organization achieve 53% better financial results. Is this just fashion? I think not. Mentoring can really be effective.

Thanks to Agata, I also found answers to the questions:

📍 therapist, coach, mentor – who is who and whom to choose?
📍 can mentoring influence recruitment and retention?
📍 how is an internal mentoring program created?
📍 internal or external mentor – what can they bring to the organization?
📍 how to use artificial intelligence in mentoring?

Agata Rybarska
Reverse mentoring is a trend that is developing a lot now, which makes me very happy. But, so as not to be too rosy, I will talk about two challenges in organizations. The first challenge is that declaratively leaders are usually very open, but in practice position and ego are big blockers in reverse mentoring. This means that in theory I would be happy to learn from someone below me, but in practice I don't have time for it. And the second challenge that I often observe, and here comes to mind a famous quote from Toffler: 'The illiterate people of the future will not be those who cannot write, but those who cannot unlearn and relearn.' Letting go takes a lot of effort and leaders often don't want to put their energy into it.
Agata Rybarska says, Business Mentor and Executive Coach
I invite you to talk to one of the most sought-after mentors

01:04 – WE ARE ALL MENTORS?

  • Harvard and Oxford for coaches and mentors,
  • fashion for coaching, fashion for mentoring,
  • competencies of a good mentor,

16:26 – WHOM SHOULD YOU CHOOSE?

  • therapist, coach, mentor, trainer – who is who?
  • coaching and mentoring – differences and points of contact,
  • how to find the right mentor? criteria of choice,

36:00 – MENTORING WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION

  • reverse mentoring and the ability to unlearn,
  • can mentoring impact recruitment and retention?
  • how is an internal mentoring program created?
  • internal or external mentor – what can they bring to the organization?
  • how to use artificial intelligence in mentoring?