What happens when I get a Cambridge Business Chamber Buddy Mentor
Chamber Buddies are dedicated business people from our community, willing to share their time and knowledge with an aspiring leader looking for guidance.
Whether you’re an entrepreneur, small business owner, or CEO, having a mentor is critical for any leader and their business development. A mentor provides ongoing business support that’s tailored to your specific needs and goals.
Signing up creates an opportunity to help your business succeed, providing a wealth of knowledge, skills, experience, and contacts they are willing to share with businesses who are willing to learn.
Upon completing your application and paying your registration fees you will be matched with a Cambridge Business Chamber Mentor. As successful business people, Chamber Buddy's understand unique challenges business owners and leaders in organization face in business. Chamber Buddy's can provide can encourage you to look at your business with a fresh perspective as an impartial and confidential guide. Sometimes, this is the most positive way to identify growth opportunities.
From there you will build your mentor relationship, you will agree together how often you will meet, once you complete a year you will have the opportunity to continue in the buddy programme.
If you are planning to develop and grow your business, this could be a very effective opportunity to help you achieve your objectives.
Your investment for 1 year’s mentoring is $200 +GST.
Your Big Buddy Mentor
Your Chamber buddy may help by:
- Supporting
- Developing
- Challenging
- Increase your business knowledge
- Help you develop and implement a strategy
- Maximise your business performance
- Improve your problem-solving abilities
- Build your confidence
- Widen your network of business contacts
Sign up to become a Buddy Mentee.
How it Works
Apply
Apply to get a Mentor, fill in the application, complete payment, and answer the questions. This will become your profile and helps our team match you with a Mentor with the skillset to guide you to achieving your goals.
Match
Matching is a critical component in the mentoring process. Our dedicated Business Advisor will discuss with you the outcomes you want to achieve and match you with a mentor based on those criteria’s.
Meet
Meet in person or digitally to set goals and direction. Depending on how you are set to be mentored, set a few different types of goals: habit forming goals, reach goals and stretch goals, as well as setting up how often you want to meet. During the mentorship, these goals will guide your discussions and the rest of the process.
Track
You will need to update your Mentor with progress updates, successes, and new obstacles you are facing to accurately track your progress. Through tracking the mentor can help you overcome obstacles or help you re-shape your strategy.
Conclude
You and your business will have grown and changed; it’s time to see if there is another mentor with a different skillset for even more progress to achieve a different set of goals.