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Mentoring Vs Coaching : definition and difference between them

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Overview:: This is an online article detailing 5 Major Differences between Coaching and Mentoring. It provides some nice compare and contrast features, as well as useful tables to compare elements that may occur in personal and professional mentoring versus coaching.
Type of Material:: Reference Material/Website
Recommended Uses:: This would be an excellent independent reading assignment for students prior to completion of a project that requires them to build out a coaching or mentoring scenario. Additionally, this is excellent for professional development uses.
Technical Requirements:: Only a web browser is needed to review this material
Identify Major Learning Goals:: This tool may be useful to aid users in developing an understanding of the differences and similarities that exist between the process of mentoring and the process of coaching. This tool also makes it easy to understand the desired outcomes of mentoring and coaching.
Target Student Population:: Individuals new to the area of management, business coaching, and/or mentoring would benefit from this material.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:: No prerequisite knowledge is necessary to grasp this material. It is presented at a basic level that would be suitable for college freshmen and above.

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Strengths:: The material presented offers some good tips overall on both mentoring and coaching, and also does a moderately good job of comparing the two.
Concerns:: Some of the sentence structure does not appear clear and the differences that the author is attempting to draw are not always easily discernible. Further, no supportive researching findings are made available to the reader.

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Strengths:: Overall this simple resource article would be a useful tool for students new to the field, in helping them to understand a bit more about the concepts of coaching and mentoring.
Concerns:: Some of the spots within the descriptions that need clarification could result in confusion on the part of students who are as yet unfamiliar with the material being discussed.

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Strengths:: As this material simply presents an article comparing 5 major features of coaching and mentoring, this material may be readily assigned to students as independent or group readings as well as may be used as a starting point from which students may build out a program plan for coaching or mentoring.
Concerns:: None, easy to apply activities to and utilize by students.

Other Issues and Comments:: A very nice reference tool. Clearly defined differences between coaching and mentoring. Individuals and organizations can utilize this as a tool for development or for helping decide wich to use. One item to consider: this site would greatly benefit from having peer-reviewed research articles made available to support its' findings.
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