What’s the difference between mentoring and coaching?

Meg Panozzo
3 min readMar 31, 2022
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The terms ‘coaching’ and ‘mentoring’ are starting to come up a lot in the corporate world.

We accept without question the role of a coach in the world of sports and the role of a teacher for our kids. While I’ve got mountains of personal experience to prove to me that guidance from others (mentoring and / or coaching) is invaluable, it also seems that to have a mentor or…

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Meg Panozzo

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