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Here are some interesting coaching & mentoring hints & tips from our own consultants, gleaned from working with their thousands of people who have been pepped. If you find them useful suggest to your colleagues that they visit our site for themselves.
Thesaurus. com uses these words interchangeably while Dictionary.com attempts to make the following distinctions:
However, neither of these definitions seems to accommodate the roles being widely used in business and government today.
Considering these roles, the role of a Coach or Life coach is one whose function is supporting and providing guidance, preparing their client for current and future “life episodes”. Importantly, it is not necessary for the Coach to have had the specific experience that their client is preparing for. Rather the Coach uses skills and processes to assist the client to progress toward agreed aims.
And it is on this point that the difference between coaching and mentoring emerges. A mentor will typically have similar experiences to that being contemplated by the client. They use their previous and wide experience (“wisdom”?) to provide different insights and interpretations for their client.
Both role of coach and mentor rely on skilful, empathetic, attentive, highly focussed listening and communication skills. It is only on this point of previous experience that the roles differ.
Some specific examples illustrate the differences. A recent study on “overwork” indicates where a coach could make an impact. The study, by the Australia Institute, quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald on 27th October reported that “chronic overwork had become a creeping problem” and “one in four people are too busy to seek an appointment with a doctor.” A Coach would help the individual focus on personal goals, including health and well being, and develop a plan of action which would include seeking medical treatment where appropriate.
A Mentor is less likely to be focussed on the development of such specific issues. Rather, the will provide a valuable “sounding board” for concerns being faced by their client and use their (the Mentor’s) experience to suggest solutions.
Here are some interesting articles on coaching & mentoring. Please feel free to download them and try them out.
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