The mentoring/counseling/coaching debate: Call a rose by any other name and perhaps it’s a bramble?
Bob Garvey
(Dr Bob Garvey is at The Mentoring and Coaching Research Group, Sheffield Hallam University. E‐mail: r.garvey@shu.ac.uk)
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Abstract
In practice, mentoring is merely an aggrandizement of the term coaching and counseling is best left to the professionals. The tragedy of mentoring is that it has been hijacked and mugged by the so‐called coaching profession who are in it only for financial gain.
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Citation
Garvey, B. (2004), "The mentoring/counseling/coaching debate: Call a rose by any other name and perhaps it’s a bramble?", Development and Learning in Organizations, Vol. 18 No. 2, pp. 6-8. https://doi.org/10.1108/14777280410519554
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2004, Emerald Group Publishing Limited