Therapy

 Mentoring

 Consulting

Traditional Supervision 

 Coaching

 Deals mostly with a person's past and any trauma to seek healing

 Deals mostly with succession training and seeks to help someone do what you do

 Deals mostly with problems and seeks to provide information/expertise to solve them

 Deals mostly with the execution of specific duties and seeks to show a person how to accomplish a task a specific way

 Is future-focused and aimed at understanding barriers to goals and designing strategies to eliminate those barriers

 Doctor-Patient Relationship (Therapist has the answers)

 More Experience - Less Experience Relationship (Mentor has the answers)

 Expert - Person with Problem Relationship (Consultant has the answers)

 Supervisor - Employee Relationship (Supervisor sets the rules and has the answers)

 Equal Partnership
(Coachee has the answers; Coach assists Coachee in self-discovery)

 Assumes emotions are a symptom of something wrong

 Is limited to emotional response of the mentoring parameters (succession, etc.)

 Does not normally address or deal with emotions

 Does not normally address or deal with emotions

 Assumes emotions are natural and normalizes them

 Therapist diagnoses, then provides professional expertise to provide a path to healing

 Mentor allows client to observe behavior, offers advice, answers questions, provides guidance for the stated purpose of mentoring

 Consultant stands back, evaluates a situation, then tells client what the problem is and how to fix it.

 Traditional Supervisor

 Coach stands with coachee and helps him/her identify challenges through self-awareness and works with client to turn challenges into victories with accountability to reach goals within client's hands

 I know how to guide you.
"What happened in the past that is inhibiting you from getting what you want out of life today?"

 My experience is…
"This is how I did it."

 I know how. This is what you are paying me to tell you.
"This is how to do it."

 I know how and this is what you must do.
"Do it this way."

 How can I help you learn?
"What have you tried? How has that worked? What else can you try?"