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A MENTOR
You benefit from their experience
- Makes Recommendations
- Shares Real Experiences
- Identifies Risk of Future Mistakes
- Makes Introductions
- Gives Advice
A COACH
Helps you find your own answers
- Uses Questions as a Tool
- Reflects Back What is Heard
- Challenges You in New Ways
- Focuses on Your Vision
- Avoids Giving Advice
How to work out which is right for you.
A case for both
A combination of both mentoring and coaching often happens naturally for many coaches, especially those with extensive experience in the workplace or in business.
Deciding if you need mentoring or coaching very much depends on what your goals are.
⇒ To uncover weaknesses, develop strengths and develop yourself, you will do well with pure coaching.
⇒ To gain wisdom from an experienced person who can give you knowledge relating to your own development, go for mentoring.
And, if you need both, find someone who can do both or find two different people for each role for the best chance of becoming an even stronger, smarter, and more inspiring version of yourself.
A Coach
A coach’s main job is to bring awareness to their coachee as well as hold the coachee accountable for their own change.
They do that by asking questions that raise awareness, provoke, probe, and enable discovery while avoiding telling the coachee how to think or what to do.
That’s what makes coaching so powerful to long lasting change – I’m sure you’ve experienced it yourself that if you figure out how to do something yourself, you’re more likely to evolve your ways or thinking compared to someone giving you the answers, which may not even be best answers or advice for you anyway.
A Mentor
A mentor has expertise or life experience that the mentee does not have or needs to develop. That expertise or experience could be workplace, business, or just wisdom that can come from being older than the mentee.
Mentoring involves much more input of knowledge than pure coaching – through stories, tried and tested methods, skill development, or feedback.
The mentor passes on information that can make the mentee a more knowledgeable person by giving them more food for thought and ideas to add to their existing skillsets and ideas.
Sometimes mentors do tell tell their mentee what they think they should do and give advice, where of course the mentee can accept or reject it.
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Lillian brings the years, global experience, and stamina to guide you through new and often disruptive realities.