Life Coaching And Mentoring

What Is a Life Coach?

A life coach is a wellness professional who helps people maximise their full potential and reach their desired results.

Life coaches can help you clarify your goals, identify the obstacles holding you back, hold you accountable and then come up with strategies for overcoming each obstacle. In creating these strategies, life coaches target your unique skills and gifts. By helping you to make the most of your strengths, life coaches provide the support you need to achieve long-lasting change.

What is a mentor?

A mentor is someone who gives help and advice to a less experienced person.

Mentoring can:

Help boost confidence of the mentee

Give the mentee clarity and an opportunity to focus on their goals and career objectives

Provide a safe space for the mentee to reflect, develop and grow

What a great mentor does

As a mentor, we share our skills, knowledge and insights with the mentee to help them develop personally and professionally in their career. We can encourage and support the mentee to achieve their goals and help them to think for themselves. It is not about us having all the answers and telling the mentee what to do. Great mentors help the mentee to focus on their own career goals and challenges by:

Providing an outside and non-judgemental perspective

Actively listening to the things that are creating barriers or worrying the mentee

Sharing our own experiences, giving unbiased advice, support, feedback and challenge

Acting as a confidential sounding board for ideas

Facilitating decision making by helping the mentee to generate ideas and actions of their own

Providing contacts and introducing the mentee to networks to further their personal and professional development