Finding the right business mentor is critical and can be made easy. The success of your business can rest on the coaching that you get, and your finances can rise and fall with food and bad advice. A combination of preparation and simple approaches to selecting the most suitable mentor for you will help ensure that your business mentor provides long term benefits for you and your business.
Before you embark upon the search for your business mentor, you need to sit down with your managerial colleagues, or alone, and ask yourself some questions. Assessing where your faults and weaknesses lie is vital to identifying what you need and from where.Start by asking yourself these three questions. What outcomes do I seek from business mentoring?What additional skills and experience do I seek from a business mentor?What mentoring personality and style would help me the most?Armed with the answers to these questions, your search will be much easier. You can identify potential mentors through many different routes including personal recommendations from people you know, on-line through Google, and through various web directories.
Accountability - the main steps in mentoring are to identify the issues/areas to improve, put a plan in place and ensure that the plan is implemented. Most mentor assignments that I take on with clients last 3-6 months. Putting a plan in place is the easier part of this process. Making sure the changes are made can be a bigger challenge. This is where the mentor plays a key role as the business owner gets 'homework' to do and knows that the mentor will be along again soon to review this work.
Once you have identified potential mentors, you can use their websites to learn more about them. Websites will often highlight the personality, style and approach of the mentor and already at this point some may stand out to you as a person you could work with. Having a look at testimonials and references is another angle that can help identify the most suitable mentor. Testimonials give you information about the type of clients and the type of work the mentor covers. Use all these sources of information together with your criteria for the ideal mentor to short-list a handful of potential candidates.
At this point, make contact and have a chat on the phone with the mentors on your short-list. After each conversation ask yourself how you would working with this mentor? It will be easy to identify the ones that you really aren't fond of, negative feelings will manifest themselves strongly when you don't develop an initial trust. Based on your feelings, select a few potential suitors and arrange to meet with them.
One reason is there's a lack of understanding about the "influence" one must have before others will want to follow them in business. There are simple steps one can take to move forward and begin positioning themselves as leaders in their company and in the industry in general.If you're a network marketer who genuinely wants to become a leader, the rewards are tremendous because you've taught your team how to duplicate success. But, be sure you're in a highly leveraged business opportunity or the time you spend mentoring won't match the money you make unless you charge outside coaching fees. The instance I'm speaking of here is you being a home business mentor to your personal downline business partners at no charge.
Picking a business mentor is a long term decision, so taking these steps is a good investment for you and your business. Importantly your investment is one of time rather than money. Once you have identified someone who you feel can really help you, ask them how they propose to work with you and at that point be clear to them about your budget. Having followed this process it is likely that you and your preferred mentor will find a way to work together that suits both parties as well as your budget. The art of haggling lives on in these kind of personal negotiations, try your luck on.
Before you embark upon the search for your business mentor, you need to sit down with your managerial colleagues, or alone, and ask yourself some questions. Assessing where your faults and weaknesses lie is vital to identifying what you need and from where.Start by asking yourself these three questions. What outcomes do I seek from business mentoring?What additional skills and experience do I seek from a business mentor?What mentoring personality and style would help me the most?Armed with the answers to these questions, your search will be much easier. You can identify potential mentors through many different routes including personal recommendations from people you know, on-line through Google, and through various web directories.
Accountability - the main steps in mentoring are to identify the issues/areas to improve, put a plan in place and ensure that the plan is implemented. Most mentor assignments that I take on with clients last 3-6 months. Putting a plan in place is the easier part of this process. Making sure the changes are made can be a bigger challenge. This is where the mentor plays a key role as the business owner gets 'homework' to do and knows that the mentor will be along again soon to review this work.
Once you have identified potential mentors, you can use their websites to learn more about them. Websites will often highlight the personality, style and approach of the mentor and already at this point some may stand out to you as a person you could work with. Having a look at testimonials and references is another angle that can help identify the most suitable mentor. Testimonials give you information about the type of clients and the type of work the mentor covers. Use all these sources of information together with your criteria for the ideal mentor to short-list a handful of potential candidates.
At this point, make contact and have a chat on the phone with the mentors on your short-list. After each conversation ask yourself how you would working with this mentor? It will be easy to identify the ones that you really aren't fond of, negative feelings will manifest themselves strongly when you don't develop an initial trust. Based on your feelings, select a few potential suitors and arrange to meet with them.
One reason is there's a lack of understanding about the "influence" one must have before others will want to follow them in business. There are simple steps one can take to move forward and begin positioning themselves as leaders in their company and in the industry in general.If you're a network marketer who genuinely wants to become a leader, the rewards are tremendous because you've taught your team how to duplicate success. But, be sure you're in a highly leveraged business opportunity or the time you spend mentoring won't match the money you make unless you charge outside coaching fees. The instance I'm speaking of here is you being a home business mentor to your personal downline business partners at no charge.
Picking a business mentor is a long term decision, so taking these steps is a good investment for you and your business. Importantly your investment is one of time rather than money. Once you have identified someone who you feel can really help you, ask them how they propose to work with you and at that point be clear to them about your budget. Having followed this process it is likely that you and your preferred mentor will find a way to work together that suits both parties as well as your budget. The art of haggling lives on in these kind of personal negotiations, try your luck on.
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