What is Career Mentoring?
According to Webster's Dictionary "career" is defined as: "a field for or pursuit of consecutive progressive achievement especially in public, professional, or business life; a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling" and "mentor" as: "a trusted counselor or guide"
A career is also a journey and we are here to give you council and be your guide along the way.
What is a Mentor? Why are some called Career Coaches?
There is a significant difference between a Coach and a Mentor. Let's take a quick look.
Coaches focus on:
Mentors focus on:
A Mentor brings all the value of a coach to the relationship, and much more, focusing on your overall life goals, career and success.
A Mentor will help you Rise Above the crowd, and help you achieve and exceed your goals in life.
A career is also a journey and we are here to give you council and be your guide along the way.
What is a Mentor? Why are some called Career Coaches?
There is a significant difference between a Coach and a Mentor. Let's take a quick look.
Coaches focus on:
- Knowledge and skill development, not on the relationship.
- Usually short term.
- The coach is usually your boss or supervisor.
- Focused on your current job or position.
- Performance-based and evaluative. Does performance reviews.
- Focused on benefiting the employee.
- One can be an effective coach without being a Mentor.
Mentors focus on:
- Development through the relationship.
- Mentoring relationships usually last for one year, but can be for a lifetime.
- Mentors are usually outside the management chain, often external to the organization.
- Development-based, not tied to performance reviews.
- Relationships are mutually beneficial.
- You can't be an effective mentor without also being a good coach.
A Mentor brings all the value of a coach to the relationship, and much more, focusing on your overall life goals, career and success.
A Mentor will help you Rise Above the crowd, and help you achieve and exceed your goals in life.
Chris Crafford
Career Mentor
Chris Crafford - Career Mentor
Chris has deep experience in leading and growing people and teams. His personal focus has been in technology, managing software development and Information Technology teams in a broad spectrum of companies from 10 person start-ups to 80,000 employee corporations.
Chris has used a mentoring approach to management for most of his career and has started taking on independent mentoring assignments over the past 5 years. Through Foundational Advisors he is now making his mentoring services available to one and all. You can see his full bio and endorsements on LinkedIN.
For a free initial consultation, send a contact request and we will make it happen.
Chris has deep experience in leading and growing people and teams. His personal focus has been in technology, managing software development and Information Technology teams in a broad spectrum of companies from 10 person start-ups to 80,000 employee corporations.
Chris has used a mentoring approach to management for most of his career and has started taking on independent mentoring assignments over the past 5 years. Through Foundational Advisors he is now making his mentoring services available to one and all. You can see his full bio and endorsements on LinkedIN.
For a free initial consultation, send a contact request and we will make it happen.