Coaching shares some aspects of counselling, therapy, counselling, training, teaching, consultancy and mentoring. However, it also has a characteristic approach that is different from all of these.
Coaching is generative, focuses on the present and future, and understands through taking action.

●  Mentoring is not Coaching although there are many similarities.
Like Coaching, Mentoring can be formal or informal. Like Coaching, Mentoring is also done with respect and wisdom and is valued by the other person. However unlike Coaching, Mentors provide advice and solutions and tell what they think the other person should do.

●  Counseling is not Coaching. Unlike Coaching, Counseling focuses on past issues and ends in the present. Key words are “personal problems and past to present”.

●  Training is different again. A trainer tells and demonstrates. Often it’s a one to many scenario and the trainer has a license to be quite prescriptive in his/her language and directive in their actions