The Mentoring Blog

Sole Trader or Company, which one should you chose? 

You will soon come to this crossroad when you start up your new business.

To help you get a better understanding, let us look at this question through three lenses: costs, risks and taxes.

When you start your new business you will be confronted by an avalanche of information. There are some many areas that you "need" to know to make your business successful that it becomes too much.

And this leads to 1 of 2 things.

1. You spend days...

“I think you need a mentor”

“A mentor will help you succeed in business”

“I had a mentor and it really helped me”

Have you had someone say this to you? It is great advice… but finding a suitable mentor...

Have you been helped by various people in your life, and you are looking for a way to pay it back and help others?

Do you get a kick out of helping others succeed in their business, career and life?

Do you have great business skills and...

Every business is unique and therefore business mentoring programs are not a one-size fits all.

Mentoring can be used for any scenario where there needs to be some knowledge and experience sharing between two people.

Below is a list of common...

At Next Level Mentoring (NLM) this is one of the most popular questions we get asked.

This article will give you the exact costs for our base business mentoring program. It will also explain the variables that can affect these costs. 

At Next Level Mentoring we do not believe you have to attend a courses that runs over several days and cost thousands of dollars just to get formal mentoring certification. 

The most important requirement in mentoring is attitude. Since you...

Let’s imagine that you are reading this article and you have already made the decision to take more control of your career and business development. You are personally going to do something about it rather than leaving it to chance or...

Why is Next Level Mentoring launching a cross industry mentoring program.

Because there is a wealth of learnings that people can gain from understanding how other industries operate.

To best explain it I want you to think of 3 concentric...

What is "surface mentoring" and what is "deep mentoring".

I have heard numerous times people talking about having a one-off mentoring session; whether this was through initiatives like mentor walks or it being part of an offering by their company....

Having a mentor could be one of the best things you do for your career. That is why a mentor is important.

Here are some of the people that would benefit immensely in taking the positive action in getting themselves a mentor.

• The continuous...

"How much time do I need to commit to being a mentee or mentor?"

A rule of thumb is that you should be having 1 meeting a month minimum. At the start of the your mentoring journey you may want to do it more frequently with 1 meeting every 2 weeks...

You are considering getting a mentor but you just want to know what benefits you should expect to see before you commit.

Well, you have come to the right page and there are a lot of benefits!

The top 6 benefits of having a mentor 

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 One of the most frequent questions we get asked is what are the difference between mentoring and coaching? It is pitched as mentoring vs coaching and only one can exist.

"Should I get a mentor or a coach?"

Since we get...

So what makes a great mentoring program? Is it;

• The simplicity of the program?

• The correct selection of the participants.

• The successful matching of mentor pairs?

• The program is fun?

It’s a combination of the above plus a whole lot...

Do you already have a mentoring program for the people within your company or for the members of an organisation? 

Are looking for ways to improve it? 

(In this case, "improve" means to greatly increase the effectiveness of your...

Should I know what my goals are before I get a mentor?

This is probably the biggest question that stops people finding a mentor... because they don't know their goals and never get the chance to define them.

It is similar to asking ...