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Coaching aims to enhance ‘self propelling force’ of an individual to work effectively. Whereas, the mentor has expertise to guide and influence other individuals in a positive way, that leads to the development of an employee’s career in an organization. They both have positive impact on individual performances that is the reason coaching and mentoring is considered to be an important part of new practices of management. They ‘inspire’ and ‘empower’ employees, to gain organizational commitment, boost up the productivity level that leads to organizational success. This research paper aims to differentiate coaching and mentoring and acknowledge the impact of its practices on organizational performance and on employees’ workplace learning. The current research attempted to investigate the aim, style, goals and focus of coaching and mentoring and its mechanism for improved individual performance. Researchers have presented two major conceptual models of coaching and mentoring. First model comprehensively characterize strategic differences between two practices, whereas the second model explains the premeditated collision of said two practices with organizational performance.

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