WHAT IS MENTORING?

Asking for help and advice from a more experienced person is a normal and fictitious approach to building your life and career.

Mentoring is a professional development tool. A mentor can help you when you are starting a new business, planning changes, want to achieve results, but don’t know where to start.

Mentor is a source of information and answers to your questions. They are a guide to the world of expertise that you may not have. The role of a mentor can be compared to Google in your professional development: they give you answers, find the information you need, but they cannot use it instead of you.

There are two types of mentoring that are popular, and they differ in their nature and format.

1. Individual mentoring

Mentor works with your personal goals, questions, and tasks. They help you to cope with possible difficulties, inspire and assist in your personal or professional development. This format is often based on personal relationships, a mutual desire to be in a mentoring relationship and help.

2. Business mentoring, mentoring in startups

Mentor helps launch a business idea, gives feedback, shares contacts and knowledge for business development. The format of business mentoring can be based on the mentor’s interest in the project and desire to help, but there are also options for partial participation, financial rewards, or other bonuses.