What feels more empowering - being told the
answer or being told how to find the answer?
I will go for the ´how´. My natural inclination is go to for the ´how´. Knowing the how increases my capability to deal with similar situations in the future.
What's the flip side of this approach? It usually takes longer to find the solution and usually involves repetitions/ iterations.
What do you do when there is a time crunch (need for quick action) or when cost of failure is high or when ecosystem is such that a lot of pre-knowledge is required to figure out how things work?
I think a combination of the answer and how to find the answer, in the future, might be beneficial in such cases.
Hence both mentoring and coaching have their place in organizations.
I will go for the ´how´. My natural inclination is go to for the ´how´. Knowing the how increases my capability to deal with similar situations in the future.
What's the flip side of this approach? It usually takes longer to find the solution and usually involves repetitions/ iterations.
What do you do when there is a time crunch (need for quick action) or when cost of failure is high or when ecosystem is such that a lot of pre-knowledge is required to figure out how things work?
I think a combination of the answer and how to find the answer, in the future, might be beneficial in such cases.
Hence both mentoring and coaching have their place in organizations.
I don´t think it´s a question of which approach
is better. Rather the question is 'which approach is more appropriate in a particular
situation'.
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Sourav
Sourav
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