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A professional Business Mentor can help you identify your business goals, clarify where you are at and formulate strategies to help achieve what you want. Your mentor is there to listen to you, relate to your situation and work with you to find the best method of achieving what you want.
Our credibility as professional Business Mentors is recognised by one of Australia's leading business organisations - The Australian Institute of Company Directors. Philip Scott has been selected to be a mentor for their 25,000 members and you can view his online Business Mentor Profile
If you want to learn more about Business Mentoring simply CALL 0408 521 282
to speak to one of our professional mentors from our Sydney offices.
Speak from Real-World Experience
Quantum Advantage professional business mentors are unique in that they began by starting their own business, growing the Sydney based company to a dominant market position in Australia, succeeding in the highly competitive U.S. market and successfully exiting the business via a trade sale. This means they more than likely have faced similar challenges and have the benefit of experience to help guide you through such situations.
Who uses a Professional Business Mentor
All sorts of people and organisations use professional business mentors. Large corporations have engaged us to:
- Assist technical proficient executives develop their business skills
- Support senior executives through times of significant change
- Guide key executives through the different stages of their career
Alternatively we have been engaged by entrepreneurs, business owners and business leaders that want to:
- Launch a new business, product or service
- Grow their business to the next level
- Prepare a business for international markets
- Prepare a business for a trade sale or merger
Business Mentoring benefits
We help you and your business reach your goals quicker by:
- Evaluating your business
- Assessing your business skills
- Setting your goals and priorities
- Working together to reach your goals faster
- Assisting you make changes to improve your business
- Evaluate options and make better decisions
- Focus your efforts and increase your impact
- Improve communication
- Improve results
How Professional Business Mentoring works
Step 1
Initially you will meet your mentor in our Sydney office or over the telephone to ensure that you gel together. As both parties need to have a good working relationship.
Step 2
Set your goals for the program together with your mentor. At this stage it is often desirable to conduct a half day workshop where you review the business, its strategy, strengths and weaknesses then identify areas you would like to focus.
Step 3
Design the appropriate mentoring program for you and your business. This will often include a combination of:
- Weekly or fortnightly meetings in the centrally located Sydney CBD offices or over the telephone
- Regular half day workshops to establish the strategy and review progress
- Quarterly progress reviews
Step 4
Commence your mentoring program where your mentor will work with you to:
- Establish a clear set of goals and objectives for you and/or your business
- Lend support to help bring out your best
- Brainstorm new ideas
- Strategise with you to identify the best way to achieve an outcome
- Encourage you to broaden your thinking
- Share experiences to help guide you
- Motivate you to act strategically and pursue your goals
- Collaborate to achieve an outcome
- Be a sounding board
- Challenge you to help bring out your best
Step 5
Regular quarterly reviews of business strategy, execution of the plan and success in achieving your goals.
What you can expect from your Mentor
- Conduct an open and honest mentoring relationship
- Focus on your best interests at all times
- Confidentiality, what is said in a mentoring session stays between the participants
- Work to the best of their ability, knowledge and experience
- Match you with the best mentor or other professional possible
- Openly disclose any conflicts of interest
How to selecting your Business Mentor
Deciding on the right mentor is an important step. You should take your time and follow a process of:
- Establishing a clear set of goals that you want to achieve with your business mentor. This will significantly improve the success of the mentoring relationship
- Decide whether you want an informal mentoring arrangement with an experienced person you may know or a formal engagement with a professional business mentor
- Ensure your mentor has a wide range of relevant business skills and experience that will help you reach your goals
- Interview the mentor to verify they have the skills and experience that you need
- Check for real world business experience across a variety of industries
- Ask for and check the mentors referees
- Make a judgement on the mentor's ethics, values and levels of trust
- Ensure confidentiality with a written agreement
- Personal rapport is very important to a successful mentor engagement
Try Mentoring before you buy
It is vital for both you and the Quantum Advantage professional mentor to be totally comfortable, open and establish a level of rapport before commencing with a mentoring engagement. This enables you to full explore challenges, obstacles, opportunities and ultimately achieve the results you want.
So your first Mentoring Meeting is OBLIGATION FREE. Contact us to arrange your first meeting in our Sydney NSW office by calling 0408 521 282.
Contact us today
Whether you want to refine your business skills, need senior executive support during times of change, want to enter new markets, win new business or develop a new strategic direction Quantum Advantage can develop and deliver a professional mentoring solution for your organisation. To book your obligation free one hour business meeting simply drop into our Sydney NSW office or call us on 0408 521 282.
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