People who make you grow 🌱

What's the difference between coaches, mentors and sponsors, and how you can nurture such relationships in your company and your life.

People naturally help each other during their career. Sometimes we help others, other times we are the ones who get helped.

The best of such relationships propel us forward at high speed. We can all think of someone special who changed our lives through their advice and support.

These people also benefit from doing so.

Helping others is rewarding in and of itself and makes for a strong growth experience. It might also be a core part of your professional role: as a manager, you are there to support your reports and you need to understand what’s the best way to do it.

This article explores the nature of such relationships and how you can create successful ones in you life.

We will discuss how to have the most impact based on what the learning objective is, how you can nurture them inside your company, and how to look for them outside of it.

The goal of this article is to make ourselves more intentional and effective about getting help from more experienced people, and giving it to those who may benefit the most.

I will cover:

• 3️⃣ The three types of relationships: Sponsors, Mentors, and Coaches

• 💬 How to figure out what is the right approach for your situation

• 🏢 How to develop such relationships inside your company

• 🏡 How to develop such relationships outside your company

Let’s dive in 👇

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