Business Mentoring
Des Moulins Business Mentoring
Success is for sharing
Mentoring is a relationship that involves peer counselling, sharing and caring. It is a relationship in which an experienced business person shares his or her expertise in order to increase the knowledge and skills of a new entrepreneur.
"[Mentoring...] It is the discrete art of leadership encouragement" (opening address by Jean-Claude Scraire at Mentorat 2000).
Meetings between mentor and mentored are based on a structured approach, a professional code of conduct and confidentiality. Mentors cannot have the answer to everything. They provide considerable support within the limits of their own experience. They can also draw on resources available within their group of affiliates.
Objectives
- Increase the survival rate of businesses
- Promote the growth of businesses
- Break the isolation of business leaders
- Support the entrepreneurial succession
Role of the mentor
- Listen and question
- Help to reframe existing problems
- Help to identify possible solutions
- Encourage winning behaviours
- Share your sound judgement
- Respect the confidentiality of the discussions
- Improve the decision-making and adaptation processes needed to succeed in business
Why be a mentor
- Contribute to the economic development of the region
- Contribute to training and strengthening the succession
- Pass on to others your knowledge and experience
- Remain active and give new meaning to your experience as an entrepreneur or manager
Contributions of a mentor
- Build confidence
- Facilitate identification of the goals to reach
- Develop the ability to seize opportunities
- Refine the search for solutions
- Facilitate decision-making
- Encourage winning leadership
- Clarify personal goals and those of your business
- Validate your decisions
- Open up to new perspectives
- Have access to a wider network of contacts
Profile of the mentored
- A person who wants to move forward, learn and develop
- A person who is ready to listen and be open to others
- A person who has a step to take or an obstacle to overcome and a project to achieve
