What is Business Mentoring?
What distinguishes a Business Mentor from a Business Coach or a Business Trainer or a Business Consultant?
The fundamental difference is that a business mentor has no fixed direction, platform or specific task in mind when commencing an assignment. Your Avantia Corporate Services business mentor's role is to develop a close rapport and 'bond' with you. Your mentor will act as an independent 'sounding board' to facilitate your personal learning and growth. He or she will encourage you to reflect on your critical business issues and to contemplate solutions from an independent objective position, outside the pressures and stresses of you business.
Mentoring makes YOU better
The maturity and skills base of Avantia Corporate Services business mentors facilitates a holistic personal approach to 'out of the box' thinking by developing and absorbing your thoughts and assisting you with the process of gaining greater insight and clarity of vision. Your mentor will help you to solve business issues, improve performance and accelerate your personal development using their advanced skills and experience.
Avantia’s business mentors go further than traditional business coaching. An important distinction is that coaching is goal-oriented and has a motivational bias, while Avantia mentors’ goals go deeper in supporting the development of the individual within their business environment. A properly devised Business Mentoring program is a proven approach to improving overall business performance
An inside job... on YOU.
Avantia Corporate Services Business Mentors do not provide consulting advice or become involved in the day-to-day running of your business. You are encouraged to drive the relationship based on mutual trust and respect and be responsible for your own learning and development with your Mentor providing assistance and acting as a learning facilitator. Avantia Corporate Services Business Mentors help you find your own answers.
Are You Ready for an Avantia Corporate Services Business Mentor?
Once you have established your NEED you should consider your businesses readiness to engage an Avantia Corporate Services Business Mentor. This requires that both you and your Senior Management support the Avantia Corporate Services Business Mentor and are clear as to the reasons why you have a Mentoring Program. You must also devote financial and HR resources to the program and integrate this program with other currently running developmental programs. Finally, you and your staff should have a clear understanding of the realities of outcomes relative to your expectations. Avantia Corporate Services will work with you, with no obligation, to establish these parameters.
How do Avantia Corporate Services Business Mentors work with you within your unique business culture?
Avantia Corporate Services Business Mentors "sweat the small stuff". We understand that our role is to assist you and your staff to learn, not just to produce, because whilst your organisation may grow through this process, it’s the personal growth of individuals that make this growth occur. Understanding, that learning and development of oneself is both valuable to your business and to you personally highlights the benefits of developing people not just rewarding them.
Avantia Corporate Services Business Mentors use a systematic and structured program involving four key steps:
Step 1: Building the Mentor/Mentee Relationship
Step 2: Setting the Mentor/Mentee Meeting Schedule.
Step 3: Development of the Mentee.
Step 4: Evaluating the Mentee Progress.
A detailed explanation of these steps will be given at our initial confidential discussion.
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