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2025-Week 22: Do you have a mentor or coach?

  • Writer: Cassandra Dennis
    Cassandra Dennis
  • Jun 4
  • 2 min read

"The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image but giving them the opportunity to create themselves." - Unknown


"Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.” – Timothy Gallwey 


In Toastmasters one of my fellow members in his speech mentioned the importance of having a mentor and a coach; and establishing an understanding of their role and responsibility. He went on to explain how his mentor allows him to ask questions, seek advice, is his sounding board, and provides guidance and support. His coach challenges him with specific goals, asks him questions and implores him to seek out information, resources, and establish the best plan of action. His coach then inquires as to the progress of the executed plan and the lessons learned.


This speech was a light bulb moment for me. Throughout my life I've admired specific individuals in how they showed up in the workplace or life and sought guidance, support, or insight from them, only to become frustrated with the outcome. Then blaming or keeping them at arm's length because I didn't receive what I was seeking. Wow!! How self-absorbed was I to think I could extract golden nuggets from someone without expressing my expectations or collaborating with them as to the dynamic of the relationship?


After that speech I realized how much mentor and coach are sometimes used interchangeably; without considering they have completely different meanings. My fellow toastmaster's speech prompted me to reflect on my current journey and what I was in need of a mentor, a coach or both, and why.


Invitation to journal (audio/video/written)

  • Do you have a mentor and/or coach (life, professional development, etc.)?

  • How are you distinguishing the roles of your mentor or coach in your development journey?

  • Are your expectations clear?

  • Are you receiving what you are seeking?


Share with me in the comments . . .

  • How has having a mentor and/or coach impacted your life?




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