{"id":86285,"date":"2023-03-30T10:56:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T10:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africannewspaper.net\/2023\/03\/30\/everyone-needs-a-helping-hand-the-namibian\/"},"modified":"2023-03-30T10:56:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T10:56:49","slug":"everyone-needs-a-helping-hand-the-namibian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africannewspaper.net\/2023\/03\/30\/everyone-needs-a-helping-hand-the-namibian\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone Needs a Helping Hand – The Namibian"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NOT SO LONG in the past, we went about our enterprise sporting masks and diligently cleansing our fingers scores of instances every single day with quite a lot of identified and unknown chemical concoctions.<\/b><\/p>\n

Safety guards had been posted on the entrances of outlets, and have become pseudo-paramedics \u2013 armed and ever prepared with a digital thermometer to report one’s physique temperature. <\/p>\n

At a latest assembly, co-hosted by two authorities entities, I noticed how the 40 or so members handed the microphone from one to a different, with sanitation being the very last thing on their minds.<\/p>\n

The assembly was in regards to the deployment of mentors as a technique to minimise the danger of debtors not repaying loans to banks and different lenders \u2013 and never about well being, security and sanitation. <\/p>\n

Mentorship is a lifestyle, so unwittingly or unknowingly we have interaction mentors from an early age. <\/p>\n

Alongside life’s journey a mentor may very well be a trusted older sibling, uncle, aunt, or one other member of the prolonged household, or perhaps a instructor, particular person of standing in the neighborhood, or a pal \u2013 somebody to show to in instances of want, or when discovering your self in a repair.<\/p>\n

Mentors are folks to speak in confidence to, use as a sounding board, or ask for unbiased recommendation and steering as one navigates the ups and downs of life.<\/p>\n

Though typically neglected, in enterprise it’s equally vital to have a mentor or mentors to show to.<\/p>\n

Naturally in enterprise a mentor is a sounding board, somebody you flip to for steering by drawing on their data, expertise, experience and knowledge in good and unhealthy instances. <\/p>\n

Resulting from circumstances and wish, mentors will change over time. <\/p>\n

Entrepreneurs and enterprise leaders, household, former colleagues, enterprise companions, prospects, suppliers, and repair suppliers make wonderful enterprise mentors. <\/p>\n

Your banker too may very well be a wonderful enterprise mentor, though modifications in the way in which banks function these days make it troublesome to even know who your banker is. <\/p>\n

At instances one wonders if that so-called private banking division is not a contradiction in phrases and may slightly be titled the ‘impersonal’ banking part.<\/p>\n

As most entrepreneurs would attest, in the case of working with banks there’s a lack of urgency and an absence of empathy. <\/p>\n

The character traits of a enterprise mentor should be to instil belief and confidence. <\/p>\n

And optimally they should be a no-nonsense kind of particular person, who would by no means hesitate to inform it as it’s \u2013 even when one would not like listening to the reality. <\/p>\n

As a mentee, there should be a willingness to take the punch when a mentor factors out that you’ve got screwed up. <\/p>\n

Mentors ought to be simply contactable and available, however mentees should settle for that they’ve limitations by way of time, expertise, data, and experience. <\/p>\n

Mentors should know and settle for that it’s your enterprise, not theirs, and that you could be not all the time observe their recommendation to the letter.<\/p>\n

As enterprise proprietor, the success and survival of what you are promoting rests with you. <\/p>\n

Good entrepreneurs don’t wait till they borrow cash from a financial institution earlier than figuring out and interesting with mentors. <\/p>\n

In enterprise, as in life, everybody wants a serving to hand. <\/p>\n

So do not procrastinate.<\/p>\n

If you have not but recognized a mentor or mentors, achieve this instantly and work on cultivating a relationship that provides worth to the working and rising of what you are promoting.<\/p>\n

* Danny Meyer is reachable at [email\u00a0protected]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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