Why Business Mentoring?
Mentoring provides guidance and direction in how to think about issues, problems and career direction by using an exchange of experiences and scenarios that look at desired outcomes strategically. Some have described mentoring as accessing a second head of knowledge and experience. Your mentor is trained in active listening and from this will craft searching and reflective questions to improve thinking and search out new solutions. Mentors work collaboratively on goals, shifting contexts and framing alternate possibilities for you to consider. Mentors hold you accountable in pursuit of the right solutions to the right problems. We are not consultants and will steer you towards you finding answers yourself thereby learning as you go.
Corporately
Finding, retaining and rewarding your best is one of the great challenges in business. Making a business-mentor available as part of your engagement of great talent is another differentiator between you and the competition;
With up to 40% of new executive appointment failing with 12 months a well managed and expertly delivered integrated support program for your talent is a worthwhile investment in the on-going success of the business and management of risk;
You show that you value good work in a unique way that achieves corporate and personal goals in harmony by directly contributing to the growth of your future leaders;
Fortune Magazine research shows that in a four year term of an executive they will miss achieving 2 or 3 of their most important objectives. This can be avoided by business-mentoring;
There are tangible business benefits researched and attributed to a well conceived and executed business-mentoring program, these include:
- Improved productivity
- Improved organisational strength
- Improved quality and customer service
- Vastly improved retention of essential talent
- Better bottom-line profitability
- Better top-line revenues
- Stronger succession planning
- Enhanced executive resilience.
Personally
As an executive you can expect to gain:
- Improved relationships with your direct reports
- Improved relationships with your peers
- Greatly improved team-work
- Increased organisational commitment across the enterprise
- Much improved results across your areas of responsibility
You get a direct indication of your worth to the business through their support of your mentor engagement as part of your role and place in the succession line of the business;
You enter a relationship that will stretch you, unblock your thinking and give fresh impetus to your work and challenges;
You gain an independent way of assessing your performance and better ways to positively impact on the business through your improved approach;
Your work/life balance can be moderated such that you also achieve new things for yourself as an individual;
Your own leadership style can be enhanced so that you directly improve your status, respect and self-worth;
Your focus is more directed to what is possible rather than what has past, resulting in better ways to do things, making a real difference and delivering your personal and corporate goals better.