What Is A Coach – What Is A Mentor? How I Can Help You?

What is a Coach? What is a Mentor?

A lot of people think they are one and the same but, they are not. While there are similarities , there are some very basic differences. I have been in the Direct Selling industry for 35 years. I’m talking about selling everything from news papers as a kid (won a trip to the Indianapolis 500 when I was in 6th grade) vacuum cleaners door to door, automobiles, health club memberships, retail products, corporate products and services and building sales organizations in the MLM industry.

Over my professional sales career I’ve also become quite good at networking, marketing, recruiting and personal motivation / development. These are areas that are near and dear to my heart. Why? Because without them, I feel a person will flounder and they and their business will die and fade away.

I’ve helped people make some huge and dramatic changes in their personal life and in business. My unique subconscious retraining techniques have helped thousands of people make incredible transformations in their lives and they can help you too.

Lets take a closer look at what coaching and mentoring are.

A coach can be many things to many different people. A coach is a teacher, a
mentor, a role model, sometimes a friend and confidant. Most of all though a
coach must be positive. Below are listed traits of what I think a coach is. See if you agree.

Puts his team members first.
Develops character as well as skills.
Fosters internal motivation.
Coaches for mastery.
Refuses to motivate through fear, intimidation, or shame.
Creates a partnership with his people.
Honors the business.

Wikipedia says:
Coaching, is a training or development process via which an individual is supported while achieving a specific personal or professional competence result or goal. The individual receiving coaching may be referred to as coachee. Occasionally, the term coaching may be applied to an informal relationship between two individuals where one has greater experience and expertise than the other and offers advice and guidance as the other goes through a learning process, but coaching differs from mentoring by focusing upon competence specifics, as opposed to general overall development.

What about Mentoring?

Wikipedia says:
Mentorship is a personal developmental relationship in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable person helps to guide a less experienced or less knowledgeable person. However, true mentoring is more than just answering occasional questions or providing ad hoc help. It is about an ongoing relationship of learning, dialogue, and challenge.

The person in receipt of mentorship may be referred to as a protégé (male), a protégée (female), an apprentice or, in recent years, a mentee.

“Mentoring” is a process that always involves communication and is relationship based, but its precise definition is elusive. One definition of the many that have been proposed, is;
Mentoring is a process for the informal transmission of knowledge, social capital, and the psychosocial support perceived by the recipient as relevant to work, career, or professional development; mentoring entails informal communication, usually face-to-face and during a sustained period of time, between a person who is perceived to have greater relevant knowledge, wisdom, or experience (the mentor) and a person who is perceived to have less (the protégé)”

Both coaching and mentoring are processes that enable both individual and corporate clients to achieve their full potential. I have been blessed to have had great success with my clients and students. My specialized and unique approach to ones challenges has helped to create some amazing success stories in the MLM industry, the general sales industry, sports teams and individual athletes.

If you are stuck or just want to move to that next level, why not look for a coach, a mentor, who can help you get unstuck and achieve what ever it is you want in life, business or personally. Coaches and mentors can be found in your current business or company or by researching and choosing a professional like me. Either way, one thing is for sure, you can not get to the highest level of performance and development by yourself. We all need help.

I am so thankful to the coaches and mentors I have had over the years. Without them, I would just be an average Joe struggling to make ends meet. Mentors and coaches have change my life and for the better.

I’ll leave you with this – “Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving. Jesus said, “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).”
― Tony Dungy, The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently.

It’s a new year and a new week. What are you going to do with them?