Becoming a better mentor for startup founders
Learn the differences between mentorship, coaching, and consulting in structured team mentorship programs for startup founders. Gain valuable insights and best practices to become an effective mentor. Ideal for both beginners and experienced mentors.
What you’ll learn
- Clarify the concept of mentorship and its differences from coaching and consulting
- Define what characterizes a structured mentorship program
- Understand the basics of Team Mentoring (many mentors for one startup founder)
- Learn best practices that successful mentors use
- Walk through the activities prior to the session, during the session, and after the session
- Solve a case study
This is the course for mentors in structured team mentorship programs that work with entrepreneurs. If you just joined a team mentorship program, or are considering joining this is can be a helpful course for you.
First, we are going to go over definitions and see what makes the role of a mentor different from that of a coach, consultant, or an advisor.
Then we’ll look closer at team mentoring. Most people have some experience and understanding how mentorship works 1 on 1. When it comes to team mentoring, when one mentee is paired with a group of 2-5 mentors, the situation is not as straightforward. There are some dynamics that can make this relationship very successful, or quite messy and unfocused. This course is aimed to make it easier to get a head start, and become an effective mentors faster.
We’ll go over the basics in terms of expectations, how team mentorship works based on the experience of the author of running such a mentorship program for about 4 years.
As part of the course, you are going to learn some best practices around mentorship that will help you become a better mentor, and you’ll get a chance to go over two practical case studies from real life.
Each group of mini-lectures is going to be followed by a short quiz to help build confidence in the content.
This course will be a great start for someone just starting out in a team mentorship environment, as well as a good refresher for a mentor who wants to go over the basics again.
Who this course is for:
- People who serve as mentors to startup founders in structured team mentoring programs
