June - 2014

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Coaching and Mentoring; What’s the Difference Anyway?

“You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself.” ~Galileo Galilei Over the weekend I was talking with a friend about coaching. The discussion started out with a description of how working with a good coach can help you gain clarity of purpose, and give you the springboard you need to move forward. At one point in the conversation, however, my friend stopped and asked this question: What’s the difference between coaching and mentoring anyway

You Are Who You Hang Out With

“It’s difficult to soar with the eagles, when you’re scratching with the turkeys!” ~Unknown As the mother of a teenage daughter, I find myself thinking about this topic a lot. Any parent will tell you, we GET that who our kids hang out with shapes who they are. But recently I started to wonder about this in my own life, and began thinking about the people I come into contact with every day (family, friends, and coworkers). How might I be allowing them to shape me? Most of th