Coaching focuses on helping individuals meet goals through an ongoing relationship and action towards visions. A coach guides and supports progress from point A to B. Mentoring is generally informal without obligations, where a mentor shares experience and insight to help one learn. Training is formal with defined objectives, where a trainer as subject matter expert teaches skills and competencies through techniques like discussions and simulations to improve capabilities. While similar in helping others, coaching, mentoring and training each have distinct focuses and approaches.

1. Coaching,
Mentoring &
Training

2. …
In my many years as a coach, I have
discovered that many people often confuse
coaching, mentoring and training.
Well…if you belong to this bracket of people,
that’s about to change!!

3. Are they similar??
• Its good you asked…
• The similarity between these terms is that
they are all ways in which an expert or
experienced individual helps someone to do
something more effectively.
• That’s about it!

4. The Differences
Now comes the part where I rock your boat…

5. Coaching
• Coaching is defined as a developmental
strategy that enables people to meet their
goals of improved performance, growth or
career enhancement.
• It is an ongoing relationship that focuses on
individuals and businesses taking action
towards their visions, goals or desires

6. The role of the Coach is to

7. They…
• Hold your hand and get you from point A to
point B

8. She says…
“Having a Coach is like having a personal
referee; someone to cheer you on and guide
you towards your greatest achievements”
- Joyce Mbaya-Ikiao

9. Question is, are Coaches important?

10. This is because,
1. They help you develop a capacity to think
about things in a new and creative way for
better accomplishment of your goals
2. They help you explore your talents and
capabilities and to establish what you want
to achieve
3. Most importantly, they help you work
through obstacles in life

11. What about Mentoring?
• Mentoring is generally an informal relationship.
A mentor will do many of the same things as a
coach or even someone who is a trainer, but
there is no formal obligation on either party
• A mentoring relationship often develops
gradually from a friendship or a professional
association, intensifies as the mentor discovers
he has valuable insight and experience to
share, and as the person being mentored
discovers his desire to learn from the mentor

12. It is…

13. So who is a Mentor?
“A mentor is someone who allows you to see
the hope inside yourself. A mentor is someone
who allows you to know that no matter how
dark the night, in the morning joy will come. A
mentor is someone who allows you to see the
higher part of yourself when sometimes it
becomes hidden to your own view”
- Oprah Winfrey

14. Training
• Training is the acquisition of knowledge skills
and competencies as a result of the teaching of
vocational or practical skills and knowledge
that relate to specific useful competencies
• Training has specific goals to improve one’s
capabilities, capacity, productivity and
performance

15. It is…
• Very formal, with well-defined learning
objectives, and is often relatively brief as
compared to coaching or mentoring
• There is a very strong focus on the trainer
been a subject matter expert
• It is expected that the participants in the
training learn from the trainer

16. Training Techniques include
• Discussions
• Simulations
• Presentations
• Lectures
• Case Studies
• Role Playing

17. In Summary

18. To Wrap it up
• All three techniques are great ways of
learning
• All you have to do is discover which
methods suits you best
• And then…

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