If you are considering mentoring a younger person, here are some things to think about. Make sure that mentoring is for you. Most effective mentors truly, deeply enjoy helping younger people grow and develop. Make sure you’re likely to enjoy the process before you take it on. Make sure you have the time and flexibility....Read More

In business terms the description ‘wise’ translates into someone who is experienced in running a successful business operation, and who is adept at passing on that knowledge. With over 65 per cent of businesses failing in their first year of trade, the suggestion would be that new business entrepreneurs should seek all the assistance they...Read More

Mentoring doesn’t have to be a complicated process or business.  Once it is designed to fit a particular need, it can be a very effective and simple method to implement, something that will be easy to use once it’s established.  Although it consists of certain processes and procedures, mentoring is actually like fine art in...Read More

To embark on being a mentor or searching for a mentor, it is definitely worth understanding what it actually means.  When people say that ‘no man is an island,’ they don’t only mean that no man or woman should live alone. That much-used phrase also refers to the fact that men and women are perpetually...Read More

Careers are getting bumpier. The speed of change in most organizations makes the traditional career pathways less obvious and sometimes blocked. Many people in employment have experienced tough times when, through organizational change, they have been side-lined, they’ve ended up with a boss they couldn’t work with, they’ve had their job reduced and possibly they’ve...Read More

Some people have a career plan set out for them from a very young age but such people are few and far between. If you’re reading this it’s very likely that you’re not one of those people who always planned to study a specific course at a specific university and end up qualifying as a...Read More

Reflect Analyse where you’re at with your career and how you feel about it. If you find yourself thinking, “Why am I here, doing what I’m doing when this clearly doesn’t suit me? My relationship with this job is purely a means to an end. This is not what I thought I wanted for my...Read More

As women in business, when setting our sights on raising our leadership-rank in firms, we will weave our way up and sideways navigating the corporate landscape to make our mark. While our networking prowess makes savvy business sense when working for someone else, its career currency tends to drop when we begin working for ourselves,...Read More

The world of business is very challenging these days. Companies are being put under extreme pressure to satisfy shareholders, employees are been squeezed to the maximum in terms of performance. It is easy to just put your head down and “just get on with it”. Throw experience into the mix, and we pick up very...Read More

The American poet Robert Frost “I am not a teacher but an awakener”. Someone who’s being mentored expects to gain knowledge so being awakened is a good start for them, what with knowledge coming to those who are alert and aware of what’s going on around them. As a mentor, you can be someone’s awakener,...Read More