What is the ControlZone Business Mentoring Programme all about?
Business Mentoring is part of an overall program mix of methods to improve SME business. The aim of Business Mentoring is to assist existing emerging business owners (in business for at least 6 months) to grow their business by providing practical training and access to experienced business people.
- Aimed Outcomes of Mentoring
- Improve business confidence and skills
- Develop and review a business plan
- Create Growth with a focus on profitability.
- Manage growth in a business
- Foster networks of people in business
- Bouncing your ideas of an experienced business person
- Positive reinforcement of ideas to reality checks.
Many business experience the warning signs, before it is too late - few take the necessary steps!
Do you have a storm brewing – many potential problems are just that!
Many times small to medium business owners realise too late the storm that’s brewing
We may have a simple one easy solution!
Have you ever felt that a growing issue is turning from a cloud on the horizon to a huge storm? ..... if you have been in business for even a short time you would have already realised the quicker you “put up the umbrella” - the sooner you escape from the rain! Sure, a metaphor for whatever is your nemesis…STOP – Just ask for assistance, listen to an experienced and knowledgeable industry specialist. The outcome may surprise you as to just how easy it is to learn the easy way forward – regardless of the project.
The skills you learn can be fostered and potentially last you a lifetime.
What is a business mentors’ role?
A mentor is someone who serves as a counsellor or guide. The mentor aims to work with the people or a person in the company to raise the skill sets, knowledge and abilities of those individuals and have a positive impact on the situation aimed to be improved.
Mentoring is a process for the informal or formal training or education of knowledge and the support perceived by the mentor to the mentee as required to assist in the participants work, career, skill set or professional development.
The work can have included but not limited to informal communication, phone calls, face-to-face discussions and nowadays Zoom meetings. The time-period can and will vary dependant on the requirements of the given task.
Typically, the roles are between a person who is perceived to have greater relevant knowledge, wisdom, or experience (the mentor) and a person who is perceived to have less i.e the mentee
Why use a mentor?
Control Zone business mentoring offers many benefits including:
- Improving your personal business skills or those your associates, partners or employees
- Developing new or fine tuning existing business knowledge
- Perhaps it is just someone to bounce a few ideas off and discuss a way forward on a new or stalled project.
- In some cases, a mentor can work in "ex officio" role of board member, therefore during the regular company 'board meeting' they can chair the meeting, or acting in appropriate roles to add value to the meetings.
- In maybe to facilitate and assist to develop a process, project or set up a method to improve or define future developments required in the business.
In any case is all about YOU and YOUR business.
You may well challenge yourself with logical questions like:
The best place to start is to create a working list of the projects’ you have in mind? These are the 10 tem questions to ask yourself:
- 1. Can my business afford business mentoring?
- 2. How will I get a return on the investment of mentoring?
- 3. Who is the best mentor to use in the sign and print industry?
- 4. How effective is mentoring in small business?
- 5. Can the mentor reduce log jams, improve processes to increase output and outcomes?
- 6. It the mentor skilled in industry specific marketing, web development, SEO and digital marketing?
- 7. Will we be able to assist in building skills in our management to production people.
- 8. Is there any better time to act to improve your business than right now?
- 9. Does the mentor suit my personality and have the right skills
- 10. The $1million question? WHY: if you ask your people, “why do we do it this way?” and the answer is – “because we always do!” Then my view is you are living yesterday, a mentor will show you how to live for tomorrow and enjoy it!
Control Zones primary business focus is to increase and develop your success. We develop businesses by helping establish improvement. View our business snapshot page.
