How does coaching differ from counselling or therapy?

• Counselling and therapy usually explore issues in the past to resolve their effects, or to help coping with crisis
•Coaching is non-judgemental, coaches do not advise
•Coaches support and encourage clients to achieve their goals

What's the difference between coaching and mentoring?

Coaching is..."a process that enables learning and development to occur and thus performance to improve"
Eric Parsloe - The Manager as Coach and Mentor (1999)

Mentoring is..."off-line help by one person to another in making significant transitions in knowledge, work or thinking"
Clutterbuck, D & Megginson, D - Mentoring Executives and Directors (1999)