Training your mentors is a vital step in preparing them to work with mentees. To do this, you need to provide several key elements during the training. But what constitutes an effective approach to training your mentors?
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There’s plenty to gain from becoming a mentor. Here are our top 5 reasons.
In September 2020. We launched the GROW mentoring programme in partnership with Impact Partner Tunisia, using mentoring as a complementary entrepreneur support tool that accelerates the growth and learning curve of start-ups and SMEs.
