Positively Impact Your Life Forever
Better than a thousand days of diligent study is the one day with a great teacher– Japanese Proverb To get off on the right foot with mentoring, you need to know what your needs are. There are three important components to setting up your relationship. Planning up front on your part, communication throughout the relationship and coaching. The better you understand your needs upfront the more likely you mentoring relationship will be a success. In terms of planning, the first question to ask yourself is what are my areas of need? Is it technology? Is it leadership? Once you have identified your needs you can then think about what you
Is it laziness or just lack of focus?
I talked last week about different organizations that you can use for mentoring help with your small business venture. The interesting thing about mentoring is that most just don’t use any resource for their business free or otherwise. The reason, to me it’s either laziness or not enough focus on maximizing resources to be successful. In the case of laziness, most people I talk to about using mentors mainly shrug their shoulders about the subject. A lazy person response is usually, “I don’t know”. This is a weak excuse in the age of Google with so much information at our fingertips. So it really boils down to effort. Meeting with
Mentoring Organizations For Your Business
It hasn’t been that long since I talked about mentors, Mentoring and Masterminds,but with resources being scarce right now, I wanted to go over more about mentors and the different places that you can do to find them. Today I wanted to talk about a couple of different mentoring organizations. The SBA has posted a few links on mentoring that you can view here, SBA mentoring, one of the organization that they list is SCORE. From www.score.org, SCORE “Counselors to America’s Small Business” is a nonprofit association dedicated to educating entrepreneurs and the formation, growth and success of small business nationwide. SCORE is a resource partner with the U.S. Small Business
Forget what you know, start looking at who you know
People are worried about the economy right now. Resources that were available 2 years ago aren’t so readily available now. This is the time to start getting creative and clear on the reources that you have at your disposal that don’t cost anything more than your time. The people in your life are one such asset. I was a victim of ignoring all of the resource and opportunity that I came in contact with on a day-to-day basis. I finally woke up about 2 years ago and asked friends and family a simple question, “What are you up to?” You may not be thinking that this is ground breaking and
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