Like every other mentor, business mentors mentor people, their mentees, in the business landscape. In our everyday life, people need a guide, usually, someone with the knowledge they seek or with the experience they lack to help them with a guide on how to scale problems and advance towards unchartered territories. An individual who wakes up one morning and decides to start up a business without a piece of advice...
As an entrepreneur, having an idea of how your business is perceived by your customers or even other business owners are important. Your business character cannot please everyone, but how many percentages of people can say they love your business character? Carrying out a statistical poll to ascertain the answer might be difficult. But if the rough estimate is below 60% then you have a lot of work to do...
Every business requires a good reputation to keep it afloat. A brand with bad reviews from customers will perform very poorly in the market. The truth is poor performance incurs a business loss, and nobody wants that, do they? The answer is generally a big NO! To avoid this, business owners would need to look into building their brand name and reputation. Well, this is where business/brand reputation management comes...
As a mentor, it gets to a point in your mentorship career that you would have many mentees to attend to, and this should take bulk of your time. When it gets to this, having the time to give each mentee the necessary and needed attention that they deserve becomes a problem; this is where a fuel-efficient kind of mentorship comes into the picture. What is Fuel-Efficient Mentorship? Fundamentally, in...
In life, everyone has at least one person—friends or families they run to for advice, counsel and help. It is because they can empathetically relate with you and proffer solutions. After all, they have been there and have more experience. This applies to all areas of life. There is no starting up any form of business without seeking advice from an experienced hand in your business field. Now to answer...
Before deciding to seek out a mentor, you must first determine what you hope to gain from the relationship. That means you need to spend time thinking about both your short and long term goals. Once you're fully clear on where you want to be, the selection process becomes that much easier. When people think about mentors, they often visualize a classic business setting, where everything is formal and methodical,...
The most successful people have mentors guiding their progress. It's difficult to overestimate the positive influence a mentor can have on your success. Finding a great mentor is a challenge, but it's worth the work. A mentor can take you places you've never been and do so at breakneck speed. Consider finding a mentor to assist with your aspirations. Benefits of Having a Mentor A mentor is invaluable for several...
Use the power of positive words and thoughts with these affirmations for mentors. You will also find self-reflection questions to monitor how you are progressing with your goals of mentoring others. Daily Affirmations for Mentors I seek to mentor others. I know how important it is to have mentors. One of the best ways I gain knowledge is to work in tandem with another person who has great skill in...
The popular belief that leadership training should be for only those in top executive roles has set many companies and organizations back in achieving their goals. Before getting into the reasons why your employees should be engaged in leadership training, lets us look at what leadership training is. What Is Leadership Training? Leadership training is a course or program designed to help individuals gain the capability to fit in and...
Great planning often draws the line between success and failure. Failure to plan only results in more failure. Your business plan should foremost be able to convince you that your idea is a solid one before you can convince any other person. Your business plan does more than guiding you and other important stakeholders on your business's growth. It also shows potential investors and partners where your business is headed....