to help themselves,
to release and realise more of their potential
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Frequently Asked Questions and Answers
Here are the common questions CEO.s, MD.s and Small Business Owners most frequently ask us about investing in mentoring in their business.
For each question we have given a one sentence ‘answer’ and links to the pages that will give you a more 'complete' answer.
Each question can be visited separately from others in any order by clicking the appropriate link.
1. What is Mentoring?
Our working definition is different to the traditional one. It is: a shared learning process that helps people to help themselves to release and realise more of their potential (ref: Dennis Martin)
2. Who are the key players?
The key players are a Mentor(s) and a Mentee (s); a senior formal Leader to whom they report for Leadership and Mentoring accountability; their local leaders in your business; and everyone else you employ
What is a Mentor? Benefits of a mentor
What does a mentor do? Letter to a Mentee
3. How does it
work?
The Mentor(s) and mentee(s) and Leaders agree on success criteria and a plan of action which includes them meeting up regularly to achieve it
Business Mentoring and Mentorship
4.
What is needed to set it up successfully?
You will need to ‘recruit’ a Mentor(s) and a Mentee(s); agree some boundaries/success criteria with them; agree on a review and accountability process and agree a timescale
5.
What are the have to haves?
You must have an achievement attitude from both Mentor(s) and Mentee(s) who will be willing to do the right things even if others won’t or can’t
6. Who are the best people to help me and how can 'Bespoke and Different' help me?
Dennis Martin Consulting (DMC) has over 30+ years experience and a well tried and tested bespoke and different award winning, self-financing approach described as 'revolutionary and inspiring' by judges who awarded him a UK National Training Award
7. Where does Mentoring fit in my organisation structure / hierarchy?
This will depend on whether you will have full-time or part-time mentors and how many and whether mentoring is part of a larger culture change project: e.g. as in the 2 links below:
8. How much will it cost?
The DMC bespoke and different approach integrates continuous improvement into mentoring which often produces savings greater than the mentoring costs involved
9. How can mentoring help me to improve my business?
It will deliver more of your people's and business' potential; contribute cost reductions; help with alignment of people and business goals and increase high performance
business mentoring and mentorship
10. Why does it matter that mentoring is a complex adaptive system?
It matters because a complex adaptive system cannot be effectively 'managed' as if it was a linear system without returns on mentoring investment being sub-optimised
I am Dennis Martin, born and bred in Yorkshire in the U.K., and in the last 30 years I have worked with clients in the U.K., Ireland, Netherlands, Germany, France, and with projects in U.S.A., Israel and Turkey.
I am proud of the fact that with many of our clients we have worked with them for a long time...
One employee commented: “I am sure in my mind that the training and new skills that we learned from Dennis made the transition in changing the organization to the way we work in multi-tasked, self-managed teams possible in a relatively short time.”
Taken from The Lubrizol Story independent report
Thank you Dennis for your help, positivity, support and mentoring during the very successful turnaround of our Lubrizol business. Our situation was dire and after a 40% downsizing so was morale.
Tony Strong, CEO,
Adare SEC,
Leicester, England
Another said: “For the first time ever, the entire workforce was assembled in one room and given the opportunity to understand the business, where it was heading and how each person could make a valued contribution to its ongoing success.”
Taken from The Lubrizol Story independent report