What is the difference between Coaching and Mentoring?

Coaching is helping another person to improve awareness, to set and achieve goals in order to improve a particular behavioural performance.

Mentoring is helping to shape an individual’s beliefs and values in a positive way; often a longer term career relationship from someone who has ‘done it before’.

Coaching and Mentoring use the same skills and approach but Coaching is short term task-based and Mentoring is a longer term relationship.

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