Mentoring

If you don’t have a mentoring culture in your organisation you are missing the key to exceptional development.

It works – from a survey of Yorkshire companies into which a venture capitalist had placed mentors free of charge, over 85% of the respondents said they would subsequently pay for mentoring, coaching or non-executive services.

Recent activity has included working on programmes with the Northern Leadership Academy and with Leeds University Business School that have been focused on the leaders of businesses with high growth potential. Clients benefit from a structured approach to decision making, prioritisation of their activities and accountability to someone else which is so often lacking in the SME world.

Mentoring makes sense at all stages of development. As well as working with SME leaders we often work with new Board members, or new partners in professional firms. The transition from doing and managing technical work to being a fully functioning member of an executive management team is often difficult, and we can provide some external support through that transition.

We also work with a number of associate mentor and coaches to ensure that our clients have a mentor who is most appropriate to their needs.