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Cynthia Crump
Antigua and Barbuda
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Mentoring versus Coaching
Mentoring has high interest for me. Based on my observation and that of other officers, a great gap exists in planning and delivery. So mentoring should help to improve teacher competencies. A more experienced expert will work with a novice or inexperienced teacher. On the other hand, a coach could include an expert, a supervisor or even a colleague.
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John Wright
Consultant, United States
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Coaching / Mentoring In the context of business, I do not see a material distinction between mentoring and coaching. For me, coaching / mentoring is providing information, insight and motivation for the person being coached / mentored.
The goal is to give a person the opportunity to perform at a higher level than they currently are performing at.
The focus is to:
- Correct a performance issue
- Provide the performer with an opportunity to elevate his/her performance to a higher level
- Prepare the performer to accept more responsibility
- Prepare the performer to undertake a new position.
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bt myo, Myanmar
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Mentoring and Coaching I was practicing mentoring and it also involved coaching. My working area is civil society strengthening. In my learning it alternates in the reflection process. Coaching reflects to the directive learning and mentoring reflects the opportunity to learn and idea generation.
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Paul Clare, United Kingdom
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Coaching / Mentoring I believe that mentoring involves someone with intimate subject matter Knowledge, Skills and Attitude (KSA) assisting someone with less KSA. The mentor is able to provide support across these domains within context of the environment/task.
On the flip side coaching seeks to unlock potential of individuals and is not context specific (but does not have to be in the role of an internal team coach).
When you acting as a coach for an SME, this line becomes blurred. Here, a coach with mentoring experience (i.e. context expertise) can only be a good thing.
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Vera Tam
HR Consultant, Hong Kong
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Mentoring versus Coaching As Paul said, a mentor is something who's in the same professional field with the protege and able to give him/her expert information within that profession.
With regard to coaching, the coach will not advise on anything regarding the profession, but instead help the coachee to reflect on what he/she has done and/or said, and then help them to rethink these in a more logical way.
Coaching also deals more with interpersonal relationships and matters between the coachee and his/her workmates.
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winsley, Seychelles
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Qualitative and Quantitave Aspects Coaching and mentoring has a quantitative and qualitative attribute by themselves. Depending on how intricate an individual is with the finer details of each factor.
While coaching adopts the positivism approach, where there is a generic overview of the activity, mentoring adopts an interpreventism approach where there is more effort to delve into the intricate details and trying to know the 'how' factors.
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Mon
Student (University), Malaysia
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Coaching versus Mentoring Are they the same: coaching and mentoring?
I think mentoring is a more intimate approach where an expert wants to deliver precious expertise to a 'chosen' staff / student.
So unlike coaching, mentoring is a more intimate approach that will enhance not only the hard-skills of newcomer, but perhaps also the soft-skills or tacit knowledge of the expert.
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Christine Snars, Australia
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Mentoring and Coaching Mentoring is a long term relationship where 'an expert' in the field supports someone to develop. A mentor may use a coaching process as part of mentoring. A coach is not usually a mentor but can be from outside the discipline and works with the coachee for a period of time, using a selected process to help them set goals and find ways of embedding them in practice.
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MKKhanduja
Management Consultant, India
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Coaching versus Mentoring A professional coach should refrain from providing his suggestions unless otherwise seriously asked for.
His primary job is to support the coachee to identify the real problem, help him developing strategy to solve through actions which are realistic, achievable and time-bound.
Mentoring is providing solutions, here I agree he should be a domain expert in order to reduce the failure rate.
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Stefania Di Cristofalo
Coach, Italy
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Coaching versus Mentoring A mentoring relationship is a senior-junior relationship. The mentor behaves, according to circumstances as a teacher, a friend or a coach. The mentor is an experienced person with teaching and coaching competencies. Inside the mentoring relationship both parts, the mentee (junior) and the mentor (senior or experienced) develop each other. Life mentoring or business mentoring is a never-ending relationship.
Coaching is a profession, mentoring is not. No remuneration is given to the mentor for this role.
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Bernard Liebowitz PhD CMC, United States
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Differences Between Coaching and Mentoring In my experience and from my point of view, coaching and mentoring are frequently the same.
I coach both high potential and remediation candidates in business. My mentoring is arranged through Menttium 100, a non-profit organization that provides mentors to high potential women (and, lately, men) in business. The firms select the candidates for mentoring with their agreement.
The skills I use are the same in both, particularly with the high potentials in both groups. The types of goals are frequently the same, the issues are frequently the same, etc.
The differences I've noted tend to fall into several categories:
- Some (not all) mentees have difficulties with their bosses who are experienced as stifling their growth -- I don't see this as much in coaching high potentials.
- The second is that contact with coachees is more frequent. Feedback from and my contact with peers and bosses is more pervasive in coaching.
- Lastly, I get paid for coaching but volunteer for mentoring.
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Arthur Panton
Consultant, Kenya
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Coaching versus Mentoring I see the distinction as quite straight forward, although there can be subtle cross-over points:
- Mentoring is imparting knowledge, skills and attitude, whereas
- Coaching is getting those characteristics out of someone who may not even be aware of having them.
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Bayissa Milkessa
Business Consultant, Ethiopia
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Coaching versus Mentoring As I understand things, there are minor differences between coaching and mentoring:
- Mentoring is a life-long process of nurturing someone to transfer knowledge, skills and positive attitude so that he/she may realize their destiny.
- Coaching is goal-oriented nurturing of an individual to release his/her potential for facing the challenges ahead.
Mentoring is helping the mentoree develop potential to realize predetermined destiny. On the other hand, coaching is a goal-oriented process of releasing the stored potential to meet or overcome the (perhaps unknown) challenges the trainee is/will be facing.
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Andrew Blaine
Business Consultant, South Africa
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Mentoring versus Coaching In my opinion, the major difference between mentoring and coaching lies in their focus:
- In the case of coaching, the focus is on the individual who, through the coaching process, becomes a better o...
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Bayissa Milkessa
Business Consultant, Ethiopia
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Mentoring is Similar but not Equal to Coaching @Andrew Blaine said that the difference between the two "lies in their focus". I think that they not only differ in their focus, but also in their process and aim that gives rise to coaching and mento...
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Andrew Blaine
Business Consultant, South Africa
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Mentoring V Coaching @Bayissa Milkessa: My understanding of the difference is not the same as yours. As I understand it, mentoring concentrates on the business, using the person mentored as the tool whereby the business b...
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Bayissa Milkessa
Business Consultant, Ethiopia
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Mentoring Versus Coaching @Andrew Blaine: I do not think that you have clearly stated the differences. As far as I know, coaching and mentoring are not focused on business. Rather they are dealing with people irrespective of t...
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Andrew Blaine
Business Consultant, South Africa
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The Artisan and his Apprentice In the good old dark days, school leavers who wished to learn a trade, became apprenticed to a qualified professional. It was the task of this professional to train the apprentice in the conduct of th...
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EUGENE AKPOFURE, United Kingdom
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Mentoring versus Coaching. Counsellor/Coaching Student As @Paul Clare and @Vera Tam have agreed, MENTORING is passing on the Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes/Attributes of the Mentor to the Mentee. It is simple, but all-inclusive.
COACHING for me is a col...
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Winston Chew
Malaysia
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Mentoring versus Coaching Eugene has said it well. My mentor coach has explained as such: COACHING is a process and therefore a coach is said to be a process expert.
Whereas MENTORING involves subject matter expertise and a m...
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Gregory Johnson
Coach, United States
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Coaching versus Mentoring This is an interesting discussion with interesting pro's and con's of the Coaching service. The distinction between Coaching, Mentoring and Consulting may vary from person to person. As for me, Coachi...
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Sreejith M
Business Consultant, Netherlands
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Coaching versus Mentoring: Is There a Relevant Differentiator in Essence, 'Really'? I think, beyond the marketing semantics and the packaging of your service, there is no real purpose for this differentiation.
There is no rule carved in stone that a coach can't be a mentor and vice ...
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Rogelio del Cano
Lecturer, Philippines
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Coaching versus Mentoring Coaching is a short-term, goal-oriented development relationship in which an individual is assisted in developing new skills and habits in order to achieve specific goals.
Mentoring is a longer-term ...
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Maurice Hogarth
Consultant, United Kingdom
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Differences in Role of a Manager versus a Mentor versus a Coach From my studying, application and consulting experience across these fields my opinion is that there are distinct differences between the role of a Manager, Mentor and Coach as shown here:
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