Counseling
is a more individual attempt. It is harder because there are no clear answers.
It requires the supervisor to really pay consideration to the work and career
related concerns of the subordinate (Popovic & Jinks, 2014). A person
stressed with his project or doubtful her abilities want more than exhortation
or training class. They require to be heard and understand first before they
will open themselves to support and new approaches (Downey, 2003). Even
employees with family or financial problems need to be heard first before they
can be approved along to right company resources (e.g., employee assistance
programs).
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1.0 What is counseling
(American Counseling Association,2016)
It
is a trusted supervisor with whom workers will talk about career decisions
within and without the company. A qualified, confident supervisor knows that
people will sometimes leave a group for good and personal reasons, hurting
immediate productivity (Whitmore, 2002). Yet that same supervisor also knows
that time invested in people pays off in the long run in inspiration, output,
devotion, dependability and retention (Downey, 2014). Counseling is not about
donations or being a get smaller. It's about helping people achieve their
possible and mutually reveling in it. Eventually, it's about group performance
(Whitworth, 2007).
Counseling
can be done on different areas, like as follows:
- Psychosocial support: Psychosocial
support is the procedure of meeting a person's emotional, social, mental
and religious desires. All of these are necessary fundamentals of positive
human development.
- Career development support: It
is a complex managerial course which involves people, addresses their
ambitions, assigns those roles & responsibilities, matching with their
potential, evaluate their presentation, and create Job positions to
accommodate growth ambitions of workers.
- Job related issues support: Job
related issues support is the process of providing guidance to the employees
if they are facing any kind of issues on their jobs.
References
Downey,
M. (2003) Effective Coaching: Lessond from the coach’s coach.
New York, Texere Publishing Limited.
Downey,
M. (2014) Effective modern coaching: The principles and art of
successful business coaching. London, LID Publishing Limited.
Popovic,
N and Jinks, D. (2014) Personal consultancy: A model for
integrating counselling and coaching. New York, Routlegde.
Whitmore,
J. (2002) Coaching for performance: Growing people performance
and purpose. London, Nicholas Brealey Publications.
Whitworth,
L. (2007) Co- Active Coaching: New skills for coaching people
toward success in work and life. California, Davies Black Publishing.
People learn best when they do it for themselves – self-directed learning. But they need support and guidance. Experiential and self directed learning can be enhanced in the workplace by activities such as induction, planned experience, coaching, mentoring and e-learning and planned development. (Armstrong,2014).
ReplyDelete"Hi Nimali,
DeleteAs per Sinpson, O.(2000), self learning is a process which has the following four steps.
1.Asses readiness to learn.
2.Set learning goals.
3.Engage in learning process.
4.Evaluate learning."
Garvey (2003) shows that the counseling model is a highly-skilled one-to-one helping activity which has an overt satisfying purpose. Counseling should only be used in a professional setting, viewing the employee as a client, and the counselor as a trained, skilled, and highly specialized person.
ReplyDeleteThanks Ganga, agree with your comment. Also would like to state that Mindfulness is a very important aspect of counselling.Mindfulness is living in the present moment and being aware of what is happening around us. It is a way of pampering ourselves and helping us stay calm in the midst of the chaos which can sometimes be our daily lives. When we practice mindfulness we become aware of taste, smell and the beauty around us. It is a very powerful means of finding the inner peace which can be a stabilising factor in the relationships we have with ourselves and others (Mooney, 2015).
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