There's no debate over the value of mentoring, but there can be overlap between serving as a mentor and serving as a career coach or teacher. The first step to providing professional development support is to understand the definition of each role and what each brings into play in growing your organization's skillsets and management capabilities. There's a great article on this topic over at CIO written by Jonathan Gilburg of the Gilburg Leadership Institute. Find out what makes for a good mentor, coach and teacher and which role best suits your skills and aspirations for your team members.

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If you missed last Wednesday's Career section, you can always click on over to our archives where you have free access to all of the career news we've printed in the past few months. Here are some recent announcements regarding career moves.

Richard Gonzalez is now executive VP and CIO at LandAmerica Financial Group, which has also named Leonard Anderson as senior VP and director of technology resources. Serving as VP and director of infrastructure is Robert Kuntz.

Todd Thompson has been named CIO at Starwood Hotels.

Charles Mees has been tapped as VP and CIO for JetBlue airline.