Mentorship is not about spilling your wisdom once in a while or adding “mentor” to your Linkedin profile. Mentorship is so much more. Not only have dedicated mentorships a real chance to change the course of founders, students or even the person struggling in life for the better. Mentorship is a certain way of broadening your own horizon through insights and inspiration that you will not find anywhere else no matter how hard you research or how strong a professional network you might have.

First things first. What are we talking about when we say “mentorship”?: According to merriam-webster a mentorship is defined by the influence, guidance, or direction given by a mentor. We agree on the definition but that's not the point. The point is what mentorship provides. Not only for the one who is influenced by the guidance or direction provided, but especially what mentorship provides the mentor. Let’s look at the upsides of a professional mentorship 

Gain specific case-based insights from a founder

As a mentor to a business founder you are bound to not only be giving advice or guidance. Soon you will discover that through ongoing conversation you will surely gain insights about specific business trends, innovation through business specific challenges and opportunities. You will surely learn from being in the trenches in the battle for scaling alongside a business founder who means business. If you talk business you are bound to get business-specific insights in the same way that if you hang around a barber you are bound to get a shave.     

IMPROVE YOUR BUSINESS SKILLS & INTERPERSONAL ABILITIES

It takes practice to win. And it takes practice to sharpen your business skills and interpersonal abilities. Strong interpersonal abilities will help keep you on your toes in an ever changing marketplace. Every interaction matters in business and every business relationship can be strengthened or weakened if the wrong impression comes across. Business thrives when communication and relations do. It’s all about building a healthy business dynamic by building on commonalities. An ongoing mentorship keeps you practicing your communication skills in a different setting, hence all together strengthening your business skills. Remember the last impression is often the lasting impression.

DEVELOP STRONG BUSINESS RELATIONS

By entering into a mentor/founder mentorship you also enter into a new business case, hence broadening your business relations. Business mentorships are to a large part about supporting a business and a founder that you believe in. In that sense mentorships have the ability of adding to the odds of success. The more you provide as a mentor, the more likely it is that the business succeeds. The more success a business gains the more influence you will gain in a business that in turn provides you with strategic relations. Entering into a business can also mean entering into a new market. What better than to have strong business relations when entering into an uncharted territory?...

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