This presentation represents part of a session about the benefits of mentoring to entrepreneurs. The session was presented at WAMDA's Celebration of Entrepreneurship 2010.

1. Entrepreneurs & Mentors – A
Hero’s Journey
Tony Bury, Founder & Trustee, & Ian Prosser,
Mentor,
The Mowgli Foundation
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2. Hero’s Journey

3. Hero’s Journey

4. Hero’s Journey 1

5. Hero’s Journey 2

6. Hero’s Journey 3

7. Hero’s Journey 4

8. Hero’s Journey 5

9. Hero’s Journey 6

10. Hero’s Journey 7

11. Hero’s Journey 8

12. Hero’s Journey 9

13. Hero’s Journey 10

14. Hero’s Journey

15. Participant
Preparation
Ordinary World The Call to Change Refusing the Call Meet the Mentor
• Select and schedule
participants
• Schedule a programme
• Establish foundations
with pre-reading and
preparation
• Where are you now?
• Who are your team?
• Who are your customers?
• What do you and your
team need?
• What are you searching
for?
• Motivation and Creativity
• Where do you want to be?
• What is your dream?
• Turning your dream into
visions, goals and actions
• Vision for yourself
• Vision for the business
• Vision for customers
• Emotional Intelligence
• Taking charge of change
• What is holding you back?
• Where are the barriers?
• Improving communication
• False starts
• People problems
• Asking for help
• Introduction to mentoring
• How mentoring can
improve performance
• What does the mentor do
• The challenging mentor
• Finding a mentor
• Becoming a mentor
Mowgli Delivery
Phases of the Hero’s Journey
• Decision making
• Negotiation
Skills
• Get SMART
• Time
management
Crossing the Line
Trials, Allies &
Enemies
Facing the darkness The Journey A new perspective The Return
 Creating a new possibility
 Building a new team
 Challenge and test. Confront
resistance:
 Delay and avoidance-aiming for
perfection; Resistance to change
 Avoidance techniques and
displacement activity
 Self-sufficiency and personal pride
• How do you cope in a
crisis?
• Flee or fight
• Creative conflict
• The arts of
determination and
perseverance
• Dealing with detail
• Taking risks
• Choosing the right
battles
• Presentation skills
• A better leader?
• Have you achieved
what you set out to
achieve
• Consolidating the
gains
• What have you
learned that you can
now pass on?
• Integrating change
• What can you bring
back to your working
life?
• How can you pay it
forward?
Mowgli Delivery

16. Benefits to Mentors
Ignite
entrepreneurial
juices
Ignite
entrepreneurial
juices
Benefits of the
Hero’s Journey to
Mentors
Benefits of the
Hero’s Journey to
MentorsBecome a
great
mentor and
pass it on
Become a
great
mentor and
pass it on
Increase
motivation
Increase
motivation
Fine tune
your strategic
capability
Fine tune
your strategic
capability
Unique,
life
changing,
experience
Unique,
life
changing,
experience
Greater
leadership
capability
Greater
leadership
capability
Develop better
communication
and
presentation
skills
Develop better
communication
and
presentation
skills
A greater sense
of emotional
intelligence and
empathy
A greater sense
of emotional
intelligence and
empathy
Enhanced
personal
relationships
Enhanced
personal
relationships
Become more
creative and
innovative
Become more
creative and
innovative
Nurturing &
deepening
negotiation
competencies
Nurturing &
deepening
negotiation
competencies

17. Benefits to Employers
Benefits of the
Hero’s Journey to
Employers
Benefits of the
Hero’s Journey to
Employers
Superior
leadership
capability
& coaching
Superior
leadership
capability
& coaching
Positive
effect on
talent
retention
Positive
effect on
talent
retention
Enhances
Talent
management
Enhances
Talent
management
Improved
customer
service
Improved
customer
service
Greater strategic
capability
Greater strategic
capability
Increased
motivation &
loyalty
Increased
motivation &
loyalty
Enhanced profile
of company for
prospective
employees
Enhanced profile
of company for
prospective
employees
Deepens the
impact of
mentoring
Deepens the
impact of
mentoring

18. Entrepreneurs & Mentors – A
Hero’s Journey
Tony Bury, Founder & Trustee, & Ian Prosser,
Mentor,
The Mowgli Foundation
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