Counseling Organization Members
Written by Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD, Authenticity Consulting, LLC. Copyright 1997-2008.Similar to mentoring, there are many perspectives on the definition of counseling, especially since the relatively recent popularity of personal and professional coaching. Traditionally, counseling might have been described as the activities conducted by a person (the counselor) for another person (the client, friend, etc.) in order to help that other person to solve a problem in regard to themselves, someone else or some other situation. An untrained counselor might provide counseling primarily by offering advice. A professional counselor might work with a variety of other tools, eg, assessments, diagnosis, treatment plans, deep listening, values clarification, direct advice, etc. The approaches and variety of tools used by a professional counselor depend a great deal on their training and paradigms (overall views) of the counselor, eg, psychodynamic, behavioral, humanistic, etc.
Today, there seems to be much ongoing discussion and debate about the definitions and differences regarding coaching and mentoring, and also counseling.
Various Perspectives
Big Dog on Counseling (scroll down to "Counseling")Confrontation Counseling (telling an employee they have a problem and must face it)
Performance Counseling Practice Session
Also see Recognizing Performance Problems ("Performance Gaps").
For the Category of Leadership:
Related Library Topics
Recommended Books
For Leading Yourself, See
Personal Development -- Related
Books
For Leading Other Individuals, See
Supervision -- Related
Books
For Leading Teams, See
Facilitation and Teams -- Related
Books
For Leading Organizations, See
Organizational Development
-- Recommended Books
For Management, See
Management -- Recommended Books
Basics and General Information
Field
Guide to Leadership and Supervision in Business
- by Carter McNamara, published by Authenticity Consulting, LLC. Provides step-by-step, highly practical guidelines to recruit, utilize and evaluate the best employees for your business. Includes guidelines to effectively lead yourself (as Board member or employee), other individuals, groups and organizations. Includes guidelines to avoid burnout -- a very common problem among employees of small businesses. Many materials in this Library's topic about staffing are adapted from this book.
Field
Guide to Leadership and Supervision With Nonprofit Staff
- by Carter McNamara, published by Authenticity Consulting, LLC. Provides step-by-step, highly practical guidelines to recruit, utilize and evaluate the best staff members for your nonprofit. Includes guidelines to effectively lead yourself (as Board member or staff member), other individuals, groups and organizations. Includes guidelines to avoid burnout -- a very common problem among nonprofit staff. Many materials in this Library's topic about staffing are adapted from this book.
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