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Mentoring, Coaching, Therapy and Career Guidance, what's the difference?

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Since it is to understand the difference between mentoring, coaching, therapy and career guidance, let’s start with a hypothetical situation. A man was walking along a forest path and got lost. It had the battery to make a single call and the telephone number of a professional in each specialty.

So, learn how each of these specialties would contribute to this hypothetical problem:

COACH – He asks open questions where you access his repertoire to find answers. For example: ‘What do you want? So what are the alternatives? So which path will you choose?’;
MENTOR – He shares his experience. For example: ‘This has happened to me before. That’s why I used a compass. In fact, there is no shortcut, just a thorn over there’;
THERAPIST – He asks about what happened and his personal history.
For example: ‘What happened? How did you get there? (your father, mother, your childhood)’;
CAREER ADVISOR – He maps your essence and asks about your reality x your profile. For example: ‘Is this exactly the kind of thing you like to do most in your day-to-day life? To answer precisely, let’s analyze your strengths… In this sense, your profile shows that choosing another career format would be more in line with your nature. That way you would not be lost.

COMPARATIVE – MENTORING, COACHING, THERAPY AND CAREER GUIDANCE

Then analyze the comparison of the 4 techniques:

	MENTORING	COACHING	THERAPY	CARRER GUINDANCE
ROOF	Business, career or transition issues	Performance, challenges, resources and change issues	Health issues and strengthening emotional balance	Career direction, some do it by maximizing strengths
FOCUS	Possibilities	Actions, results, growth, personal development	Difficult subjective phases, personal empowerment	Self-knowledge and application of tools
PRIORITY	Past, present and future	Present and future	Past	Past, present and future
DEALS WITH	How to act on a personal or career issue	How to act considering what you want to achieve, co-creating solutions	Because you act, feel, think one way. How to change to have more comfort and emotional maturity	Who are you, where do you stand out, how to reposition your career

Now list your current challenges, people and professionals. Then mark for each of them the best technique to be used.

Are you still in doubt? Then get in touch and let’s talk about you.

AUTHOR [Maria Candida Baumer de Azevedo]

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