Strengthening Entrepreneurial Capacities – A Case For Socio-economic Integration Of Refugees in Kakuma, Kenya with Swisscontact
Integrating refugees into the labour market was a challenge faced by Swisscontact community-based trainers at the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. In collaboration with Mowgli Mentoring, Swisscontact supported their trainers to better support the refugee beneficiaries to integrate better into their host country.
The importance of mentoring in the workplace
Mentoring can help your employees learn new skills, improve their performance, and improve their relationships with other staff members. It helps them develop as leaders through the creation of a culture of empowerment and growth within your business. It can help you build a team of happy, fulfilled employees, who are more likely to stay with your company and help it grow.
Why investing in leadership development matters
With all life on Earth at risk from climate and ecosystem breakdown – including our own survival as a species – the demands on today’s conservation professionals are huge.
Running Effective Mentoring Programmes – Fireside chat with Maia Gedde and Mike Ducker
A fireside chat between Mike Ducker (Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Builder & Executive Director at Valhalla Global Accelerator) and Maia Gedde (Head of Development at Mowgli Mentoring. Maia and Mike discuss some of the challenges and pitfalls that mentoring programme managers and entrepreneurial ecosystem builders encounter during the implementation of mentoring programmes.
The importance of mentoring in entrepreneurship programmes: The success story of LIF Global Programme (Cohort 6) entrepreneurs overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic challenges
The Leaders in Innovation Fellowship (LIF) programme implemented by the Royal Academy of Engineering built in a mentoring component to a structured business programme dedicated to entrepreneurs with the aim of supporting researchers and innovators in the engineering space to commercialise their engineering-based innovations that address one or more of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Find out more about this programme.
The importance of training to design and structure your mentoring programmes for success
Effective mentoring programmes don’t just happen and there’s no one-size-fits-all design. There are key design principles to consider, as well as pitfalls to look out for in order to make your programme effective and yield fruit. If you are the person in charge of a mentoring programme, make sure you have the knowledge and skills to set up a mentoring programme which really creates value to those who participate.
The impact of intergenerational mentoring on leadership perspectives
When Blandine Melis and Jamal Hamzeh, two environmental leaders working in Cape Verde and Lebanon respectively, joined the MAVA Leaders for Nature Academy in 2020, they couldn’t have imagined the impact it would have on their personal and professional lives.
Here are some of the key takeaways from the mentoring pair.
9 reasons why mentoring programmes fail – the tell-tale signs of a failing programme
Setting up an effective mentoring programme which adds real value is easier said than done. Many mentoring programmes fail. Often, they start off strong but then slowly fizzle out, and other times, they don’t even take off. Today, we are here to share with you our experience because we are keen to help others reap the real benefits of mentoring. It can be done if you set the right foundations.
The role of the Programme Manager in running an Effective Mentoring Programme
Research has shown that mentoring accelerates the learning process and elevates higher education beyond technical expertise. However, Effective Mentoring Programme doesn’t just happen. Mentoring programmes need intentional planning and execution so that they do not fail. There is need for someone to take the lead and steer the programme to success.
Imarisha Mentoring Programme: how mentoring can help entrepreneurs overcome the odds
In 2019 Mowgli Mentoring had been commissioned to deliver the Imarisha Programme, supporting 72 entrepreneurs based in Nairobi, Kisumu and Mombasa. The programme ran during the heat of the COVID-19 pandemic and revealed the value and impact of mentoring in an accelerated and glaring way.