When you started your business, there would have been challenges and issues that you had to face, and you probably faced them alone. Getting over those hurdles took time, and could have cost you dearly if you hadn’t successfully navigated your way through. If you had had a mentor right at the start of your business, however, everything would have been a lot simpler to deal with. The challenges would still have been there, but you would have known which way to step to deal with them.
Now that you are more established, isn’t it time you became that mentor for a younger generation of entrepreneurs? There are many reasons why you should.
Strengthen Your Learning
Over the years you will have learned many important lessons. You know what to do and what not to do now, and that’s a hugely positive trait for your business. If you now choose to pass on that information to someone else, not only are you helping them to succeed as you have, but you will also be strengthening your own learning. That means that you will be even more able and confident to deal with anything that comes your way.
Helping others is another way of helping yourself, and there is no better way to clarify ideas and think about challenges than by dealing with the challenges faced by others.
Reinforce Your Customer Service Model
If you have found a great way to help your customers and offer exceptional customer service, you can teach this system to someone else, reinforcing your own model in their business. Why is this a good idea? It’s because customer service is of paramount importance when it comes to running a business; without good customer service no matter what else you do you will never reach the heights of business success that you would otherwise do. Therefore, if you can teach a new business owner just one thing, let it be that customer service is important and how to do it right.
Learn New Things
Although you may think of mentoring as teaching someone else everything you know about business, sometimes it can work the other way around; sometimes you can learn new things that will benefit you as an individual and your business as a whole.
By talking ideas through with someone else, you will often see a different side to the idea, either positive or negative, that can have an impact on what you are doing, or how you are going to implement your new plans. You might discover affordable PCB design software with Circuit Studio that you hadn’t realize existed, but that would make a big difference in your business. Or you could start to look at machine learning because your mentee likes the idea of using it.
Leave A Legacy
Being a mentor is about ensuring that someone else has as much success – if not more so – as you did in your business. It’s a way of leaving a lasting legacy, especially if your mentee then goes on to become a mentor themselves, passing on information to the next generation. This kind of business immortality is exciting and something that many people want.
