How Is Coaching Different From Mentoring?
Mentoring is a natural way of passing on knowledge, skills, and experiences to others by someone who is usually older and wiser with broad life experiences and specific expertise. Coaching is about inventing a future from the individual’s own possibilities plus the coach’s knowledge and experience. Mentors convey and instill the standards, norms, and values of the profession/ organization. Coaching is more about exploring and developing the individual’s own values, vision and standards. [ top ] History of Coaching Coaching has probably existed as long as people have inhabited the earth. For centuries, the world’s athletes, painters and artists, even kings, rulers, and generals, have employed personal coaches to develop and enhance their performance. Coaching in sports is familiar to us all, and indeed business, executive and life skill coaching derive many principles from sports psychology. In the 1960’s, especially in the United States, the sports coaching model began to be adopted by
