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Dona Ghosh Dastidar
The Early Birdโ€™s Club
9 min readAug 5, 2021

๐Ÿ“ŒIn today's business scenario, business mentors and coaches are basically known as the main part of any business external team which usually provides valuable methods or perspectives for any new business platform in order to scale up their business.

For evolving as successful entrepreneurs, business leaders need to create a business supporting system in order to provide the business platform delegating, elevating, and learning about their company's structure more effectively since true business owners basically feel very much lonely when they reach towards the top of a business organization. For every business platform, the business internal team by design choice is very much necessary but there are some limits to how much anyone can view their business platform in a much bigger vision. It can be a little bit difficult for the working teams for holding their business leader accountable based on the open and transparent business environment. Thus, an external team by design is very much crucial for obtaining the outside perspective and accountability for scaling up their business, and therefore, it is necessary for the business coaches and mentors in order to raise their company as they are the valuable aspects of the business external team. In order to find good mentors and coaches for your scale-up business, the business needs to search for those individuals who should have the basic availability for helping out the company, having enough experience both as an advisor and an entrepreneur, and possessing a broad base of structural study for their relatable knowledge based on their business backgrounds for enabling them to apply this certain knowledge to the business situation. But it needs to be clear that business mentors and coaches basically have different roles. Business coaches are usually the paid resources and the best coaches are worth multiples of what an entrepreneur pays and thus, this formal relationship results in a more formalized, consistent approach.

The biggest difference between a business coach and a mentor is that a business coach is basically tended for payment whereas mentors are typically considered as volunteers. Mentors are those individuals who have already gone through difficult times in order to reach their business goals and get succeed on their methods while coaches could explicitly and systematically allow help with the business performance, accountability, and introspection. Stronger mentors can take the formation of an experienced confidante that we often speak with in case of occasional or professional business advice or a resource who walks through the growth of the business platform and they are the ones who should be respected and looked up to as a source of wisdom and experience. The earlier we have a better mentor for rising up our business platform, the more we gonna able to increase our business platform in the global market. Usually, business mentors are naturally found within the business network who are structured through different groups or personal networks or during the previous work experience. In some cases, a mentor may be the reason for which an entrepreneur usually got into the business in the first attempt, and thus, in such difficult situations in the scale-up business, we naturally approach the mentors and strike up a business relationship with someone who is willing and able to help for increasing the growth of the company. The business coach usually serves a similar purpose by pushing their entrepreneurs for finding out their own answers or solutions for their business platform in order to face their own consequences and approach to solve them and sometimes the business coach allows reflection on the business words back at them by helping them to perform at a higher level with a systemized business method. Coaches usually can be categorized in many different forms such as personal or life coaches, business coaches (general or specialized), and operating system coaches which allows the operating systems to the entire company. There are certain coaches that allow specialization in many things such as life, leadership, and executive development focus on the individual rather than the organization.

Importance of having Business mentors or coaches for any scale-up business:-

  • Business mentors or coaches usually allow the business platform to develop their business ideas for growth by sharing their skills, expertise, experience, and contacts with the new upcoming business leaders or entrepreneurs or starters. Business mentors truly share their business wisdom with the businesses based on an ongoing basis, and in a manner that can have a direct, positive impact on the growth of their business over time and thus, business mentors is the one who basically has more entrepreneurial knowledge based on their business experience than the business founders who usually serves as the trusted confidante over an extended period of time in free of cost. Several business mentors basically advise the people in order to develop their own potential skills whether as a teacher, manager, strategist, or business consultant. Only a true mentorship relationship usually works in both directions where the business mentors get to learn and understand the business's new ideas, strategies, and tactics from them only just as soon as they learn timeless wisdom from them. Whereas, a business coach allows the business to tackle their specific tasks and objectives by helping them with the process of bringing on a business partner, or managing a software implementation, or setting the objectives and determining the number of sessions required for meeting their goals. The relationship with any business coach usually happens for a short-term period and anyone could use different coaches based on their life of the business.

Certain tips or tricks for selecting mentors and coaches for your business:-

For selecting rightful business mentors:-

a)Having their own values:: It is very important in order to make sure that the business values align properly with the person whom you are looking toward as a potential business mentor and finding someone with those values similar to their business platform will basically lead to a better business relationship. In order to get rightful business mentors, the business founders must know their mentor's values and write down their values clearly and consider them with their working similarities.

b)Good communicator:: Many people are basically successful based on their chosen business field but did not able to convey effectively what they have done for reaching the top position. So, the business needs to make sure that the business mentor they have in their mind is able to communicate in a systematic manner which is easy for them to understand by observing the mentors interaction with other people and whether they convey their feelings or ideas with a tactful way or do they communicate with others willingly or not. These certain attributes not only allow the mentors for communicating with you effectively but also helps your business interaction in order to become a better communicator.

c)Willingness for doing:: In order to teach someone as a business mentor, that certain person must be willing to help out, and just because someone has found success, it doesnโ€™t mean that the business mentors will readily share it with your business platform. In case of asking someone to be your business mentor, always try to know about them a little bit in the beginning and see if they are open to talking about their successes or not and whether they have mentored anyone in the past or not and always make sure that they are sharing the absolute information which the business platform requires.

d)Personality:: Whether the business believes it or not, personality is basically something for considering in case of choosing any business mentors and anyone is introverted and their prospective mentor is the opposite one, they might find themselves uncomfortable interacting with your company or any business platform is looking for someone more extroverted so that the business could able to emulate some of their qualities to them in order to approach them. In order to approach rightful mentors, the businesses need to learn more about their mentor's personality in order to match their abilities with them for communicating easily and effectively.

For selecting rightful business coaches:-

a)Speaking with the coaches:: A one-to-one conversation with the business coaches will help us for understanding whether they have been in your situation and can speak your language or understand your business platform or not. The conversation with the mentors will basically allow the business some comfort that he or she has the same knowledge and experience that makes them feel confident and for which they can help by asking them how they conduct coaching sessions and what sort of availability they have and see whether it meets with your business expectations or not. Basically, a coach knows how to play a role in pointing out the business opportunities and help in sorting out the various business alternatives.

b)Enquiring them:: The process in which the leaders finds out whether a particular business coach measures up or not is basically done by starting to find out what other people are saying about those business mentors based on their views and investigating if the coach has a wide experience for handling their business situation by checking whether the business coach speaks, writes and teaches based on the business topics: strategic planning, (marketing both traditional and digital marketing), customer service, whether they learn new business and coaching skills on a regular basis, or search online to see if theyโ€™ve been quoted or published in certain magazines, newspapers, books or journals or if they do not have a website, ask them to give their references and find out their coaching techniques or any case studies based on their work with any client or look up their association memberships and certificates they had.

c)Creating a list of interview questions:: To find a perfect and best fitting coach for any business platform, the business owners need to detail out certain answers based on their specific questions. The questions could be such as their working background in the business and their business experience on coaching business owners, whether the business owners have credentials in coaching or in some other related fields, asking them about their personal coaching style and whether what type of business issues they are most qualified.

d)Clear understanding of your business roles:: Basically, an effective business coach usually allows us to help for building our own business capacities and resources in order to respond more consciously, skillfully, and appropriately to our business leadership and management challenges. The business mentors basically guide the business platform for executing their business decisions with certain precision methods and measures and how those certain assistances and supports will be displayed and reviewed by those business platforms.

  • Thus, having a business coach or a mentor will basically help us to perform and get out of our comfort zones and spend more time on our business platform effectively and meet new business partners for your business scaling. Before, hiring any business mentor or coach, you need to have a clear review and vision of your business position towards them and where you wanted to move forward in order to upfront the results which you wanted to achieve for your business growth.

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Dona Ghosh Dastidar
The Early Birdโ€™s Club

๐Ÿ“๐ŸŽ“BBA๐Ÿข๐Ÿ“ โœ’Blog Writer๐Ÿ“ ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ’ปIntern in Knowlexon Innovation and Technology ๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ“’Social Media Marketing Executive at The EarlyBirdsClub