The greatest leaders do more than achieve results—they develop people who go on to achieve even greater results. In today’s rapidly changing business environment, organizations that invest in coaching and mentoring build stronger leadership pipelines, improve employee engagement, accelerate learning, strengthen organizational culture, and enhance long-term competitiveness. Effective coaching helps individuals discover their own solutions and maximize performance, while mentoring transfers wisdom, experience, strategic judgment, and professional perspective across generations of leaders.
Coaching & Mentoring Skills is a practical, executive-oriented course designed to equip Junior MBA students with the leadership capabilities necessary to develop talent, guide professional growth, and build high-performing organizations. Rather than emphasizing counseling techniques or abstract leadership theories, the course focuses on practical coaching conversations, developmental feedback, active listening, questioning techniques, performance improvement, career guidance, succession planning, relationship building, executive development, and organizational learning.
Students will explore coaching psychology, mentoring relationships, leadership development, communication skills, emotional intelligence, performance coaching, talent acceleration, cross-generational leadership, virtual coaching, artificial intelligence as a coaching tool, and the creation of learning-centered organizational cultures. Throughout the course, emphasis is placed on practical application, enabling future leaders to become talent multipliers who elevate the performance of individuals, teams, and organizations.
Course Objectives
By the conclusion of this course, students will be able to:
• Understand the strategic value of coaching and mentoring in organizational leadership.
• Differentiate between coaching, mentoring, teaching, advising, and managing.
• Develop active listening and questioning skills that encourage growth and accountability.
• Conduct coaching conversations that improve performance and self-awareness.
• Build effective mentoring relationships that support long-term career development.
• Provide developmental feedback that strengthens capability and confidence.
• Foster continuous learning and leadership development within organizations.
• Support employee growth through personalized coaching strategies.
• Lead diverse and multigenerational teams through effective mentoring practices.
• Build organizational cultures that prioritize learning, development, and leadership succession.
