Mentoring and coaching are still, but not the same for professional development assistance. Mentoring is guiding beginners in the same independence in the job, while coaching is helping the persons to achieve peak competencies and peak performance. It can also be said that coaching is a special kind of advanced mentoring.
Coaching and mentoring are related but not the same. They both aim to support personal or professional development, but they differ in focus, structure, and approach. While coaching tends to focus on skill development or specific performance goals, mentoring is more about providing guidance, advice, and long-term growth.
The answer to this headline question is no, they are not the same thing.
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Article Coaching and Mentoring: Avoiding Confusion
Mentoring is connecting people with questions to people with answers. It is an advisory relationship. It is typically, but not always, within a particular field of knowledge or expertise, e.g. a junior Quantity Surveyor paired with a senior Engineer to increase knowledge on Project management. Coaching is something different. Coaches don't give advice and they need no technical expertise in the clients role. Coaches ask questions. The coaching conversation is one in which the client is is in charge and is treated as the expert in their own lives. The client sets the agenda and the Coach asks questions and challenges assumptions to enable the client to identify different perspectives and be supported in making choices and exploring actions that resolve an issue opens new opportunities.
Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science 2025
"Applications are open for the Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science 2025 for nominees working in the United Kingdom in science, technology, engineering, mathematics or medicine.
Celebrating outstanding support and mentorship in science, the Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science recognise those who support early career researchers in their career development.
The Awards focus on a different country or region each year and to celebrate 20 years of the Nature Award for Mentoring in Science, we have gone back to where we began and will be celebrating mentors in the United Kingdom who contribute significantly to guiding and shaping the careers of emerging researchers. We invite former mentees to nominate a mentor that has made a significant contribution to their careers..."
https://www.nature.com/nature/awards/mentorship
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