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Business Mentors

  • 20-09-2009 9:01pm
    #1
    recruitment
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭


    Hi Guys

    Any one hear use a business mentor or coach, as I have a small business and Im considering using a mentor. Has anyone used one and if so what did they get out of it.

    Thanks for any feedback.


Comments

  • #2
    515
    Closed Accounts Posts: 150 ✭✭515


    Yes. Best thing I ever did. Make sure you select the right mentor, who will push you and question you and challenge you.


  • #3
    bacon?
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 784 ✭✭✭bacon?


    where do you find them? is it a free service?


  • #4
    conolan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 586 ✭✭✭conolan


    Business mentor can be a friend, former colleague not absolutely neccessary to be 'professional'. Most important is the issue raised above by 515.


  • #5
    515
    Closed Accounts Posts: 150 ✭✭515


    bacon? wrote: »
    where do you find them? is it a free service?

    Enterprise Boards or Enterprise Ireland can provide one for a limited number of visits... you only need one visit every month or two anyway. After that you can either pay or ask the board/EI to extend it. Or you could give the mentor some shares or get him/her onto your board.


  • #6
    pog it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,912 ✭✭✭pog it


    Hm.. 515- were you on Dragon's Den by any chance? 'Levitat' rings a bell for me!


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  • #7
    515
    Closed Accounts Posts: 150 ✭✭515


    pog it wrote: »
    Hm.. 515- were you on Dragon's Den by any chance? 'Levitat' rings a bell for me!

    Nope.


  • #8
    patftrears
    Closed Accounts Posts: 174 ✭✭patftrears


    I've had 5 mentors from EI.
    If you are inexperienced it can be good to chat with them, overall I got very little from them.

    Mentors are a bit out of touch and some take the mentoring role to seriously and expect you to hang on their every word.

    Set a clear objective that you want to achieve with the mentor.
    Set a goal and agenda for each meeting.
    They work for you, if they are not delivering value, bin them.

    I did get great help talking to people who run their own businesses and are more experienced with what is happening on the ground.


  • #9
    Spinnaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 482 ✭✭Spinnaker


    @ recruitment, stating the obvious perhaps but as in recruitment test your mentor for those two key ingredients; relevant experience and bundles of enthusiasm..


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