Digital Greenhouse Business Mentoring Scheme - Supporting Resources
Support your business growth with the Digital Greenhouse Business Mentoring Scheme. Meet mentors face-to-face or virtually for monthly sessions over 6 months. Maintain confidentiality, engage in meaningful discussions, and follow a structured meeting agenda. The scheme provides suggested topics for your first meeting and a mentoring record template for tracking progress. Benefit from this valuable resource to enhance your business acumen and achieve your goals.
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Business Mentoring Scheme Supporting Resources DIGITAL GREENHOUSE Business Mentoring Scheme
Meet face-to-face or virtually for a minimum of 1 hour each month for 6 months. Mentoring Commitment Complete short pre, interim and end-of- scheme feedback surveys. Mentors and mentees should agree that any information exchanged during the scheme is confidential unless otherwise stated. There is an example NDA you can download to use if you wish. To ensure you get value from this scheme, there is a level of commitment that we ask for: Mentors should not charge mentees for the provision of advice or guidance, or solicit their professional services. Mentees should not ask mentors for any investment, loans or support with personal finances. DIGITAL GREENHOUSE Business Mentoring Scheme
Example meeting agenda Having an agenda can help prepare for and guide your mentoring sessions. 1. Proposed meeting topics Discuss & agree focus areas for your meeting 4 Action items and next session date Agree actions and book in next session, to ensure monthly cadence 2. Development goals It could be useful to reference these goals to ensure agenda addresses them 5 Meeting evaluation and feedback An informal review of what went well, and what could have made it more valuable 3. Current challenges/ areas of interest The main part of session to explore challenges/ other topics 6 AOB Any other business you would like to discuss DIGITAL GREENHOUSE Business Mentoring Scheme
Suggested topics for your first meeting Your first mentoring session is a great opportunity to build rapport with your mentor and share your goals and objectives for your time together. Here are some suggestions to aid that discussion. Topics Prompts Discuss mentee s business and role Discuss mentor s business and role Share other background and experiences Introductions Get to know each other and your experiences Ways of working Agree: how you both want to work and who will do what to setup meetings the boundaries of the relationship what to do if either of you feel the relationship is not working Frequency of sessions (at least 6 hours over a 6 month period) Structure of sessions Who will record notes from discussion? Discuss what the mentor is (and is not) able/ prepared to do Prefered methods of communication (email best? ad-hoc?) Where is the mentee with their business? Discuss pain points Clarify expectations on both sides; areas mentor can/ cannot help with (longer-term and/or quick wins?) Goals Discuss mentee goals and identify possible steps to achieve these Share how you found the meeting and what would be useful to cover next time Agree any actions Agree date/ time for next session Review and next steps Establish what worked well in the session/ what could work better next time and book a date for the next session DIGITAL GREENHOUSE Business Mentoring Scheme
Mentoring Record Feel free to use this template as a record of your sessions with your mentor. Mentee: (Your name) Mentor: (Your mentor) (Your business name here) Headline: (Headline update of progress/ next action points whatever feels like it encapsulates current status the most) Session number: 1 Date: (Date) Next session: (Date) Advice from mentor this month: Actions that have been completed since previous session? Key headlines from your business this month: Highlights / achievements / disappointments / difficulties? X X X Y Y Y Z Z Z Focus areas of discussion with mentor: Headlines of the session Next actions, to be complete before next session: X X Y Y Z Z DIGITAL GREENHOUSE Business Mentoring Scheme
Mentoring Record Feel free to use this template as a record of your sessions with your mentor. Mentee: (Your name) Mentor: (Your mentor) (Your business name here) Headline: (Headline update of progress/ next action points whatever feels like it encapsulates current status the most) Session number: 2 Date: (Date) Next session: (Date) Advice from mentor this month: Actions that have been completed since previous session? Key headlines from your business this month: Highlights / achievements / disappointments / difficulties? X X X Y Y Y Z Z Z Focus areas of discussion with mentor: Headlines of the session Next actions, to be complete before next session: X X Y Y Z Z DIGITAL GREENHOUSE Business Mentoring Scheme
Mentoring Record Feel free to use this template as a record of your sessions with your mentor. Mentee: (Your name) Mentor: (Your mentor) (Your business name here) Headline: (Headline update of progress/ next action points whatever feels like it encapsulates current status the most) Session number: 3 Date: (Date) Next session: (Date) Advice from mentor this month: Actions that have been completed since previous session? Key headlines from your business this month: Highlights / achievements / disappointments / difficulties? X X X Y Y Y Z Z Z Focus areas of discussion with mentor: Headlines of the session Next actions, to be complete before next session: X X Y Y Z Z DIGITAL GREENHOUSE Business Mentoring Scheme
Mentoring Record Feel free to use this template as a record of your sessions with your mentor. Mentee: (Your name) Mentor: (Your mentor) (Your business name here) Headline: (Headline update of progress/ next action points whatever feels like it encapsulates current status the most) Session number: 4 Date: (Date) Next session: (Date) Advice from mentor this month: Actions that have been completed since previous session? Key headlines from your business this month: Highlights / achievements / disappointments / difficulties? X X X Y Y Y Z Z Z Focus areas of discussion with mentor: Headlines of the session Next actions, to be complete before next session: X X Y Y Z Z DIGITAL GREENHOUSE Business Mentoring Scheme
Mentoring Record Feel free to use this template as a record of your sessions with your mentor. Mentee: (Your name) Mentor: (Your mentor) (Your business name here) Headline: (Headline update of progress/ next action points whatever feels like it encapsulates current status the most) Session number: 5 Date: (Date) Next session: (Date) Advice from mentor this month: Actions that have been completed since previous session? Key headlines from your business this month: Highlights / achievements / disappointments / difficulties? X X X Y Y Y Z Z Z Focus areas of discussion with mentor: Headlines of the session Next actions, to be complete before next session: X X Y Y Z Z DIGITAL GREENHOUSE Business Mentoring Scheme
Mentoring Record Feel free to use this template as a record of your sessions with your mentor. Mentee: (Your name) Mentor: (Your mentor) (Your business name here) Headline: (Headline update of progress/ next action points whatever feels like it encapsulates current status the most) Session number: 6 Date: (Date) Next session: (Date) Advice from mentor this month: Actions that have been completed since previous session? Key headlines from your business this month: Highlights / achievements / disappointments / difficulties? X X X Y Y Y Z Z Z Focus areas of discussion with mentor: Headlines of the session Next actions, to be complete before next session: X X Y Y Z Z DIGITAL GREENHOUSE Business Mentoring Scheme
