Nick Finck - Design Coaching + Mentoring

	Training	Mentoring	Coaching	Counselling
Goal	Transfer specific knowledge, methodology, and skills.	Support and guide personal or professional growth.	Improve behavioral performance for personal or professional goal success.	Improve performance below standard.
Results	Learning results	Succession	Goal achievement	Performance improvement
Approach	Transfer specific knowledge, methodology, and skills.	Transfer formal and tacit knowledge, skills, best practices, experience, wisdom, and mindset.	Help individuals or groups self discover and take ownership to achieve desired goal.	Confront, correct and instruct of attitudinal and/or behavioural change.
Focus	Help the students acquire specific knowledge and skills. Learning based on curriculum.	Focus on the mentee's career goal/direction. No learning plan - Can be done formally and informally.	Focus on the coachee's goal. Help the coachee self-discover hidden potentials and make behavioural and performance changes.	Manage the staff's performance standard. Listen to their issues, give feedback, and manage the right expectations.
Relationships	Teaching	Advisory	Collaborative	Management
Communication	More directive than non-directive. Tell, advise and ask questions.	Directive & non-directive. Ask questions, listen, and give advice.	Non-directive. Ask questions, listen, and give feedback.	More directive than non-directive. Tell, advise, and ask questions.
Time	Present	Present and future	Present and future	Past and present
Duration	Short	Medium and long	Short and medium	Short

What is the difference between coaching, mentoring, training, & counselling?

	Mentoring	Coaching
Goal	Support and guide personal or professional growth.	Improve behavioral performance for personal or professional goal success.
Results	Succession	Goal achievement
Approach	Transfer formal and tacit knowledge, skills, best practices, experience, wisdom, and mindset.	Help individuals or groups self discover and take ownership to achieve desired goal.
Focus	Focus on the mentee's career goal/direction. No learning plan - Can be done formally and informally.	Focus on the coachee's goal. Help the coachee self-discover hidden potentials and make behavioural and performance changes.
Relationships	Advisory	Collaborative
Communication	Directive & non-directive. Ask questions, listen, and give advice.	Non-directive. Ask questions, listen, and give feedback.
Time	Present and future	Present and future
Duration	Medium and long	Short and medium