“A mentor enables a person to achieve. A hero shows what achievement looks like,” said John C. Mather, an American astrophysicist, cosmologist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite with George Smoot. This work helped cement the big-bang theory of the universe.
A mentor is a person who has a year-long experience in your industry and they have already experienced the success and failure that you are going to experience now. So, having a mentor for your business can be very helpful to you because they can guide you through every critical and challenging situation and help your business to achieve its goal.
Here are a few reasons why strong mentorship is important in a business:
Gain experience not shared in books:
You can buy anything with money but gaining experience can never come with money. You need to invest your time to earn the experience. Well, just learning from books will not help you in your business success and it’s the truth. You need to find the right mentor with respect experience in your industry who can guide you in every possible way to make your business successful. Mentorship can help you to gain a better experience from others.
You are more likely to succeed with a mentor:
A recent survey proves that people who are taking the help of a mentor are more likely to succeed than others. When you find the right mentor, try to connect with them on regular basis, ask them for advice, and also try to learn different skills from them. Having the right mentor will help you to overcome difficult situations and allow you to work hard to achieve the company’s goal.
Network opportunities:
As we know that mentors have years of experience in their pockets but along with that they also have a huge network of people who can help you in your business. If your mentor is committed to helping you grow and they will make sure to connect you with their network. This network will open different gates of opportunities for your future and can offer your better growth and success.
A mentor will help you stay in business longer:
There are many businesses that have failed because they ignored the value of a good mentor who can guide them in their business. A report suggests that businesses without mentoring will not survive more than 24 months. But if a business is supported by the right mentor then it has a 70% chance of success.
Talking about strong mentorship, a person from whom inspiration can be taken is Reza satchu, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Alignvest Management Corporation. Reza Satchu also serves as a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, where he teaches two courses: Launching Technology Ventures and The Entrepreneurial Manager.
