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Coaching, Consulting & Mentoring - What is the difference?

Updated: Nov 15, 2022

👂👊💡𝑫𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉, 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒐𝒓?


👈 😕👉Not surprisingly it seems there are 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘𝒔 out there on what each of these of do, how they operate and the benefits or advise each provide.


📢⚽👔Some of the confusion probably comes from the fact that the title of coach, consultant and mentor are used quite liberally in 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒅. A 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉 would probably be expected to provide advise, judgements and opinions based on their experience to their team to improve their performance. Whereas good practise for a 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉 means not providing advise or judgements to individuals, rather creating greater client awareness through smart questioning to help individuals move forward positively.


🎥🎥🎥For these reasons I thought I'd share 𝒎𝒚 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 on each of these roles in a short video, particularly given that my business provide services in all of these areas.


In simple terms you could say:


👂🚀👂"𝑨 𝑪𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏'𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒚 𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔"


👊🚀👊"𝑨 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒃𝒚 𝒅𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒐𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖"


💡🚀💡"𝑨 𝑴𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒐𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒚 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒅𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒐𝒓 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔"


I'm sure you've all got your own opinions based on who you worked with and the experiences you've had.


🚀💯 🎯𝑯𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉, 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒇 𝒔𝒐 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒔𝒐 𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒕?

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