About Mentors
About Mentors – The Third Place
A mentor is a person with more experience in business, or simply in life, who can help an entrepreneur to navigate through challenges. A mentor can be a boon to an entrepreneur in a broad range of scenarios, whether they provide pointers on business strategy, bolster your networking efforts or act as confidantes when your work-life balance gets out of whack.
We believe that each business owner should have a mentor, who will energize the operation and motivate to achieve more. They can also providing guidance, advice, and encouragement on a number of life issues.
When looking for a mentor you may want someone who’s a good listener, someone well connected, someone with expertise in, say, marketing, someone accessible. Ideally you could find a mentor with all of these qualities, but the reality is you may have to make some compromises. It may also be beneficial to have more than one mentor.
By creating and sustaining mentors within your business operation, you will develop effective supervisors, better managers, and future organization leaders. This is the main point of the business.
If you are wondering how to find one, here is great article at Inc.
It’s always best to have experts to guide you when starting a new venture. No matter how well you know your stuff, unexpected problems will crop up that you’ll need answers too. If nothing else it’s nice to have someone to talk to who understands what you’re going through. I have a friend who’s recently started a candy making business and she belongs to ‘women in business’ group. They provide classes in everything from book keeping to website building, but she says the best part is the mentors who volunteer and help people build their confidence.
We really value our mentor too. They’re truly invaluable!