Are there questions you should not ask your mentor? Yes there are, do you know them? Most people would agree that a mentor is someone who has the time, expertise, and experience to give valuable advice. However, there are boundaries that you need to be aware of so that you do not put your mentoring relationship in jeopardy by asking the wrong questions. It's a common misconception that your mentor...
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...
To know how successful your business mentorship program is, you'll have to measure its progress. A successful mentoring program help break down the obstacles and create an environment for success. A mentoring program connects people who possess certain skills and have attained a level of expertise in a business line, usually referred to as a mentor, with individuals (called mentees) seeking guidance in the same line of business to boost...
How to find a mentor for your startup? Finding the right mentor is no longer a secret to success. No man is an island. Thus, every entrepreneur needs a support network. Learning from someone experienced in your business line has proven to be of a valuable asset. Finding the right mentor can be challenging because it entails more than just finding someone you aspire to become like and merely asking...
Here is how to be a business mentor. First, you must have attained a certain level of expertise in a particular line of business. This comes with the strengths you have achieved and the shortcomings you must have experienced in the process. Becoming a mentor is not an easy task, this is because, when you finally decide on becoming a mentor, you have decided to invest a good percentage of...
A leadership and management training program is essential in organizational development. Leadership refers to the ability to influence, direct the behaviors and directional purpose of others in a group. According to Warren Dennis, a top leadership expert, "leadership is the capability to bring to reality the vision of a group." In an organizational setting, leadership is needed to help the organization achieve its aims and objectives to put it on...
What makes a successful mentoring relationship? Mentoring is an appropriate way to help individuals without experience grow and develop in a particular career path or profession. As a mentor, the job you have at your hands is to help your mentee build needed skills as a leader or strategist, to guide your mentee into making good, sound, and positive decisions that would positively help your mentee in their career path....
Like every other mentor, business mentors mentor people, their mentees, in the business landscape. Here are ways business mentoring creates a lasting difference. 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...
Are you familiar with strategies for fuel-efficient mentorship? 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...
Why every start-up needs a business mentor? 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...