There are some overlaps between mentorship, coaching and training.

Coaching is performance driven. While the focus of coaching is on the present that of mentorship is futuristic. The purpose of coaching is to improve, enhance, or acquire new skills that can be leveraged immediately. Coaching has a defined ending. It ends when the goals have been achieved, that is, the trainee has mastered the specific skill or goal which they were lacking.

Training involves developing a particular skill to a desired standard through instruction and practice. Training is the act of increasing the knowledge and skill of an employee for doing a particular job.

Our motto is to work for youth with youth. This means that we work with youth, being guided by their individual ideas. Our intervention approach is based on a model that promotes active listening, discussion, reflection, action and learning. Our model seeks to build youth champions or role models who will act as catalysts for change among their colleagues and communities.

Our approach begins with identifying each young person’s internal resources, that is, their entrepreneurial qualities, things that they are or could become good at, and the networks that can potentially support their success. We then work with each mentee or group of mentees to identify and exploit business opportunities that resonate with their internal resources.