Mentoring

Mentoring is a form of accompaniment in which a more experienced person shares their knowledge, experience, and perspective with someone seeking to grow. Unlike coaching, a mentor gives advice, draws on their own story, and can guide directly; a coach does not offer opinions of that kind. Mentoring is usually built when someone who has already travelled a particular path — career, leadership, entrepreneurship — guides someone who has not yet walked it. A good mentoring relationship does not turn the mentee into a copy of the mentor; it offers the mentor's experience as a reference point while leaving the decision to the mentee.