Chris Cartney

"At International Business Mentors we successfully mentor CEOs, Directors, Owners of Business, and Senior Executives with a view to improve performance of these individuals and their business."

Business Mentoring with International Business Mentors

• International Business Mentors provide and train independent Business Mentors to CEOs and Senior Executives.
  
• We provide you with a Business Mentor to enhance your performance and help achieve your business goals.
  
• This is a strictly confidential service between you and your International Business Mentor

An International Business Mentor listens to you, and helps you to think outside the square, considers the business and your self in a holistic fashion, which brings you greater insight. The Business Mentor helps you to solve business problems, which improves business performance, and facilitates your personal development using their skills and experience.

Business Mentoring goes further than traditional Business and Executive Coaching. Whereas coaching is goal-oriented and has a motivational bias, Business Mentoring is far more reaching, and has much greater depth in supporting and developing the individual within their business environment. A properly devised Business Mentoring program is a proven approach to improving overall business performance.

Who we work with

At International Business Mentors we work with CEOs, Directors, Business Owners, Family Businesses and Senior Executives.

Typically our mentoring sessions are on a one to one, confidential basis. On occasions however, it may be appropriate to include others, at the request of the Mentee. In some cases, key staff or other owners or directors may be invited to attend sessions when the content involves their area of expertise.

In Family Businesses, other family members may need to be involved in some or all of the sessions depending on the circumstances and issues.

For a successful Business Mentoring relationship it is essential to have flexibility and compatibility between the mentor and the mentee. We therefore carefully select the Business Mentors for their alignment with:

• What the Mentee specifies, which is critically important
• The Mentee personal characteristics
• The business key issues and challenges for the future

When will you need a Business Mentor?

• When the business strategy or performance needs to rise to a new level
• When you are facing immediate issues and need a fresh view
• When you need to:
  • Maintain your edge
  • Be challenged
  • Develop and transform
  • Have a sounding board for ideas
  • Transition the business
  • Have guidance regarding the future direction of the business
  • Have personal support
• When you are facing difficult changes involving personal emotions and close relationships in business

To qualify as one of our Business Mentors you must have:

• Run your own businesses
• Experience as a CEO or Director
• Broad business experience
• In most cases, our Business Mentors will also have formal qualifications
• Exceptional people skills
• A desire to see people succeed
• A genuine desire to share your
  • Skills
  • Experiences
  • Mistakes and successes

Matching you with a Business Mentor

When we match a Business Mentor with a Mentee, it is vital to establish all the necessary criteria in order to obtain the right ‘fit’. At International Business Mentors we take great care to ensure we get it right.

• Our matching process gives the Mentee confidence in their Business Mentor, who will possess the right skills, experience and personal attributes needed for a comfortable fit. This results in a deep, successful Business Mentoring relationship.
  
• The Business Mentoring relationship operates on many levels -working on specific issues, creating strategic insights, and is motivating and uplifting. This relationship is built on trust, respect, positive attitude and a willingness to improve.
  
• Each Business Mentoring relationship is unique with a broad spectrum of individuals in diverse businesses, so the application of the mentoring methodologies are flexible and delivered in a practical fashion by our experienced International Business Mentors.

Mentoring Programs for Organisations

We provide mentoring programs and executive coaching programs for organisations covering a wide range of key executives. Depending on the size of the organisation and the number of key executives involved we work within your corporate frameworks. In large organisations we liaise with internal training and development departments and we implement programs specifically developed for the various levels of management. In smaller businesses, we carefully match Business Mentors and Business and Executive Coaches with the individual according to their business and personal circumstances.

The International Business Mentor approach to mentoring programs is geared to extend and challenge the individual, based on broad strategic and practical business experience, which is focused on developing the individual and improving the individual’s contribution within your organisation.

Learning and consequent improvement is a continual process to which no one is exempt. CEOs, Directors and Senior Executives have benefited enormously, both personally and from the business perspective, through the relationships they have with their Business Mentors.

Typical Mentee Comments:

"My Business Mentor has helped me transform myself and improve business performance over the past 2 years."

"At long last, with my Mentor's input, I am now able to focus on the strategic components of my job."

"I have found the deep relationship with my Mentor as a strength through very difficult times."

" I have found the mentor relationship very challenging and rewarding."