Mentoring for Growth

Our mentor programme pairs experienced business professionals with the leaders of small and medium-sized businesses

Key to long-term business improvement is access to different skills and experiences – being able to learn from exposure to new sectors and important fresh perspectives. That’s what our Mentoring for Growth programme is all about.

At Be the Business, we’re hand-picking a team of senior-level mentors who want to share their experience, sector expertise and best practice with British small and medium-sized enterprises.

We’re creating the UK’s most ambitious mentoring programme for the leaders of small and medium-sized businesses. Backed by government and supported by some of the UK’s leading businesses, the scheme is structured to give ongoing support and advice to participants.

Find out about being a mentor Find out about being a mentee

How will our programme benefit your people and your organisation?

If you’re a mentor, you will

• Develop and reinvigorate their own leadership and management skills

• Gain personal satisfaction

• Build an outside-in perspective

• Access a wealth of peer-to-peer learning through programme induction, events and webinars run throughout the year

Your organisation will

• Gain fresh perspectives on your own organisational challenges

• Develop and recognise key talent

• Exceed your CSR goals

• Join a movement of high-profile companies boosting British business for the benefit of the whole economy

If you’re a mentee, you will

• Get access to an experienced business professional

• Have someone to serve as a sounding board

• Gain an objective, non-biased perspective about important business challenges

• Access a community of like-minded business leaders throughout the UK

Your organisation will

• Benefit from the strategic insight from an outside influence

• Build out its accessible support network

• Get support with implementing business improvement efforts

• Join a movement of high-profile companies boosting British business for the benefit of the whole economy

How Mentoring for Growth works

Experience

Mentors are sourced from some of Britain's leading firms

Matching

Mentors and mentees go through a pairing process to ensure the right compatibility

Support

Throughout the programme help is on hand to help pairings make the most out of the experience

Find out about being a mentor Find out about being a mentee

Hear from some of our mentees on the value of working with their mentors

A Siemens business mentor re-united our family firm behind the same vision

With the third generation at family firm Carrs Pasties not finding things straightforward, mentoring turned out to be the experience-based support needed.

I knew marketing, but finance and logistics were way out of my comfort zone

He is a marketing expert, but a mentor gave fitness brand owner Mark Robinson the finance and logistics help required for his business to reach new heights.

My mentor’s experience gave me leadership confidence

A mentor helped Jake Lavelle transition from being the creative driving force behind his busines to one more befitting of his managing director status.