We think about mentoring, sponsoring and allyship as actions, so you can do all three things in the context of a single relationship. Mentoring can include giving advice, providing social support, and explaining the unwritten rules of the organization. Sponsoring is when you leverage your position of power to advocate for someone else to give them access to an opportunity. And allyship is when you are in a position of privilege based on a social identity, and you use that to amplify the voice and support the development of people who don't share that social identity.