THE DISTINCTION OF MENTORING

 Each waking hour, you make choices, and decisions to undertake actions.

Often, you’re basing these on what you’ve seen your manager do or you take a gamble with your gut.

If the consequence is positive, you repeat, yet if the result casts doubt, your confidence can plummet.

The best answer is often not in a google search function; the context is different; nuances and personality discolour and distort the situation.

It’s at these times that a quick intervention with a Mentor to leverage their knowledge expertise and experience will provide answers and advice with clarity and assurance.

This is the distinction of Mentoring.

A Coach requires expertise in coaching, asking creative and thought-provoking probing questions, to enable you to extract your own solution.

Whereas a Mentor requires expertise and experience in the subject you’re exploring to provide you with advice, guidance, direction, or the time to solve together.

Sir John Whitmore, instigator of the GROW coaching Framework made these distinctions when I studied coaching in the 90s!

Good leaders do both.

Great leaders search out Mentors to become more effective at both.