Finding a Business Mentor in a Network Filled with Business Mentors

  Written by Julia Rymut on Oct 4, 2009 4:21 pm

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Finding a business mentor isn't hard when you're in BetterNetworker.com.  You can't swing your business opportunity contract without smacking into someone who would love to be your business mentor.

So how do you go about finding your business mentor when there seems to be so many?

How do you find the one that really makes you feel satisfied?

The first step to finding your business mentor is to assess what your goals are for your mentor.  Are you wanting business advice like SEO, retaining customers, closing sales?  These skills are very specific and you will want to find someone who has lots of specific experience with these skills.  Often your mentorship can be a limited term one--just until you have a handle on those skills that you want to develop.

Or do you want a business mentor for more broad business goals?  Are you dealing with fear of success? Time management?  Overwhelm?  These issues are broader and fall closer to life coach issues.  These take a different type of skill, one of listening and hearing into your needs to really help you see what you need to do.

In either case, I recommend that you follow your business mentor candidate for several weeks (or months) to get to know what that person offers before you sign up for business mentorship with her.  Sign up for her email lists.  Attend her free teleconferences.  Do what you can to see if you have a true connection with that person.

Finding a business mentor is not just finding someone you click with.  You need to find the person who can really push you forward--and this may mean that the person is not always easy to hear.

Gravitas-The Best Way to Find a Business Mentor

The best business mentor has gravitas.  She has a weight of personal experience and understanding that you respect and honor.

I experience this gravitas as energetic weightiness--the person takes up space in a room.  People listen when she talks.  She has insights which are unusual and tempered with real experience.  She offers more than textbook answers.  She acts like a grown-up, someone with life experience and maturity, and commands respect just by walking in a room.

I have been approached by someone offering business mentorship to me.  She is a lovely person, full of light and beauty.  I really enjoy being with her.  I would be happy to talk about spirituality with her.

But as a business person, she doesn't have the down and dirty experience I need in a business mentor.  She doesn't have weight.  I am an entrepreneur who has been around a bit.  I need someone who can really see deeply into my business challenges--not just offer advice from a book.  I need someone who will speak plainly and stay focused.  I need someone with toughness and beauty.

Be picky when finding a business mentor.  Shop around.  Don't settle for the first one you find.  If a business mentor is a little too eager for your business, be suspicious.

At BetterNetworker.com there are many, many business mentors who are very good.  Take your time to find the one who can offer you the most substantial help.  Don't settle for someone who is 'good'; demand that someone be extraordinary.  Look for someone you look up to.

Find out more about a program which helps you develop your own gravitas, allowing you to be mentored as you are learning to become a paid coach yourself.

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