Rod offers mentoring services for lawyers and business operators. He also provides coaching services.

WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN – A TRAINER, A COACH AND A MENTOR?
The roles of a mentor are often confused with the role of an Trainer or a Coach but each has a different objective.
This diagram shows you the relationship between the three roles:

A TRAINER is someone who teaches you the required skills knowledge or behaviours for a particular job.
A COACH is someone who assists others in the specific skills they need in order to do their job or achieve a goal.
CHARACTERISTICS OF A COACH:
•    A tutor
•    Someone who observes your work and actions
•    Provides comments on execution and teaching skills
•    Can be a colleague, manager, another employee or external consultant
•    Trustworthy and open to feedback
•    Focus on helping the person to develop their own strategies
•    Check that you are addressing a real issue
•    Keep the strategy and operational issues as the core of the conversation
•    Refers people with major personal problems to a qualified counselor

A MENTOR is someone who offers knowledge, insight, perspective or wisdom that is especially useful to another person (the mentoree). They provide support, encouragement and opportunities to a less experienced individual to assist them in defining and reaching their career or personal goals.
Mentors may do some coaching and training, but that is not the primary role of a mentoring relationship.
CHARACTERISTICS OF A MENTOR:
•    A counsellor
•    Provides advice on career paths
•    Discusses developmental opportunities
•    Advises on the requirements of becoming a leader
•    Usually someone from senior professional or management background
•    Has broad experience in the type of organization involved
•    Mutual respect between mentor and mentoree must be evident