Over the last 9 years and hundreds of discovery sessions, it's become clear to me that a lot of people use words interchangeably and that the outcome of that can be quite a lot of confusion on what the client is actually getting when they sign up for coaching. And because I offer a number of services, including coaching, mentoring, and consulting, it can get confusing pretty quickly - sometimes even for me.

There are 10 seats that I believe you need to fill on your personal board of directors, and a possible 11th seat - but that one comes with a

Mentoring is not a skill we are necessarily ever taught - but mentoring is often something we feel called to do.

Everyone needs a mentor, but based on the comments and questions I receive almost weekly there are a lot of people out there who have some m

By the time you get to your year-end review, you probably will have forgotten some of your achievements from the beginning of the year. Imagine what it's like for your manager, who has several people reporting to her - she has probably forgotten everything except what you did in the last few weeks - so if you have screwed up recently, that's what she will have in mind. So what does this mean for you if you want to get the best out of your year-end performance review?

Last year sometime after attending a Women in Mining event intended to connect mentees with mentors, I wrote a blog about how surprised I was at the lack of follow up from prospective mentees after the event. The blog was titled "Everyone needs a mentor - here are 5 reasons why". I knew at the time that the mentee-mentor relationship is filled with complexity. But what really opened my eyes, was an e-mail exchange with a young woman, Eva Masemola, who took the time to c