Lets Do Mentoring Presentation - Chase Chamber 25 February 2015

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Levi Roots Talks Mentoring

Let’s Do Mentoring
25 February 2015 Cannock

Housekeeping
@letsdomentoring
@chasechamber
#mentoring

Did You Know - The word
itself was inspired by the
character of Mentor in
Homer's Odyssey!
Fun Fact

“Mentorship is a personal
developmental relationship in which
a more experienced or
knowledgeable person helps to
guide a less experienced person.”wikipedia
The Definition

What You Will See
• Who am I

• What Is Let’s Do Mentoring

• Why Mentoring

• Final Thoughts

Who Am I

Who Am I?
• Chartered Accountant
• Social Media Addict
• + outside interests...
• Corporate Stooge
• Referral Marketing Specialist

What is

The BackGround
Mentoring...here to help your business succeed

The Average Mentee?
YOU!

The Challenges
No Experience No Job
No Money No Network
No Customers No Focus
No Reputation No Skill

• Programme Started In Staffordshire in 2006

• End 2013 Review:

A. 200+ successful “interventions”

B. Over 100 jobs created or safeguarded!

• North Staffs focus initially - now County Wide

• Now funded by ERDF

The Team
• John Thompson

• Leila Green

• Ann Steele

!
• + Rest Of Chamber’s Business Services Team

• & 100+ Mentors

Social Media - Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn etc.

The Marketing Spiel
• SME based in Staffordshire? Our mentoring scheme could be for you.

• Whatever stage of your business - you can beneﬁt from having a mentor.

• Primary role of a mentor is to provide support and guidance to businesses.

• Mentor provides the conduit for the transference of skills and knowledge.

• Mentoring provides you with non-judgmental support based on your situation.

• Less of a formalised professional relationship and more of a partnership.
Mentors sign up because they have a wish
to share their extensive skills and
knowledge to give something back to the
people and to the area they live in.

Why Mentoring

The Why
• Mentors have often suffered same experiences you’re going through!

• They will look to share their wisdom with you based on their experiences.

• They will listen to your issues and encourage you to generate solutions
and create strategies which will help your business to ﬂourish.

• Many commercial disciplines that can be addressed including:

1. Sales and Marketing

2. Social Media

3. Funding

4. Finance

Plus many more!

The Offer
• 12 Hours Fully Funded

(15 if Chamber Member)

• SME based In Staffordshire

• Minimum paperwork and reporting

Role Of The Mentor
• Consistency

• Providing honest feedback

• Help set goals / tasks / targets

• Empowering solutions

• Practical help wherever possible

• Honouring limits and boundaries but keeps pushing them

• Listening - is hard but advice is easy

We could all use more listeners in the world!

Mentoring Is Not!
• Short Term Tasks

• Just Speciﬁcs

• Involves A Higher Authority

• One-size Fits All

Is It For Me?
• It’s your job, not your mentor’s job.

• Think commitment, not lip service.

• Show up for the relationship.

• Give back and get (more) back.

• Keep expectations realistic.

• Risky (but healthy).

• Don’t be afraid of your mentor’s silence.

What Do We Cover
Sales Marketing Networking
Social Media Finance Resourcing
Governance Operations Accounting
Tax HR etc etc

People We Work With

Final Thoughts

The Ask
• SME based in Staffordshire?

• Our mentoring scheme could be for you!

• Whether pre-start, start-up or existing business you
can beneﬁt from having a mentor.

• Is thisYou or SomeoneYou Know?

• We want successful “interventions” not half-hearted
attempts - don’t do it if you don’t want the help!

And In Conclusion
• Mentoring Rocks!

Wish I had a Mentor when I ﬁrst started!

• Ask a Mentee about it - could it work for you?

• Contact us

• Look out for us on

Social media and share our successes.

Contact Let’s Do Mentoring
Phone - 01782 202222
Email - john.thompson@staffordshirechambers.co.uk
Website - http://staffordshirechambers.co.uk/
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LinkedIn - LDM Facebook - LDM
YouTube - Staffs Chambers Twitter - @LetsDoMentoring

4 Final Actions

1-2-1s

17th March Stafford
http://staffordshirechambers.co.uk/events/one2three-club-2/

Social Media Challenge
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LinkedIn - LDM
Facebook - LDM
YouTube - Staffs Chambers
Twitter - @LetsDoMentoring

Contact Me
Phone - 01785 244481 or 07706 171851
Email - stuart@conspicuous-cbm.com
Blog - www.conspicuous-cbm.com
LinkedIn - uk.linkedin.com/in/stuartwalton/
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THANK YOU

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