Peer-to-Peer Mentoring and Advisory Engagements
There are certainly growing benefits in using external advisors and innovation mentors.
We provide that external perspective.
Let’s provide the reasoning on why this has real value to you
It brings greater diversity in opinions, experiences and insights
To find someone who is empathetic and experienced in business innovation is growing harder so as to avoid many typical, sometimes unseen ‘pitfalls’ of innovation.
Someone who has a depth gained from their own business experiences; working in large organizations, managing complexity, projects and starting up fresh initiatives or taking them over to turn them around.
You gain access to a person who can empathize with managing innovation, learning and leading significant activities that are tailored to your unique needs and specification.
A mentor or advisor can certainly provide:
* The opportunity and environment for you to step back from the day-to-day detail to take fresh stock, to re-engage in the bigger picture of what innovation can provide. They can help you to refocus and re-energize innovation activities. They can be timely.
* They can be a great sounding board as they listen they can prompt and stimulate your thinking. They can challenge it and help in arriving at new ideas for solutions to your challenges. They can offer a series of directions and courses of action to be considered.
* Growth or the needs for Renewal needed are often tough areas to manage and deliver through innovation activities.
* Having that timely advice can instil growing confidence,
* External opinions and thoughts provide a greater chance to debate, discover and explore alternatives, and pursue emerging options.
* A mentoring approach can help in avoiding ‘classic’ mistakes made by others.
* Today, we need to leverage the connections within our networks more and more.
* Knowing who, where and why becomes increasingly of value so as to avoid loss of time, energy and basic mistakes.
* Having available a mentor who has a wide network to tap into can seek out the best advice to support assumptions or offer even more clarification.
Each mentoring or advisory engagement will be clearly different
Discussing constantly changing business challenges often values external evaluation. Mentoring triggers thinking about both the known and the unknown, it shapes discovery
A mentor can remind, prompt and connect issues and bring a fresh perspective to these. Having the opportunity to revisit the different complexities within innovation so you have available a knowledge resource to share and reflect on constant changes since the last conversation or meeting can provide a catalyst to taking the appropriate action.
Having the opportunity to engage around different topics of discussions that surface around innovation can become a powerful motivational force for you to recalibrate, stay motivated, and have added incentives to think through these again.
In our view, an innovation advisor or mentor needs to offer:
A good innovation mentor or trusted advisor should offer a different perspective based on a combination of their own practical business experiences along with a real depth of innovation understanding to provide a real return to your needs from innovation.
It is yours alone to finally assimilate and use this new knowledge gained; we will help you in achieving your personal goals and provide a fresh dimension and place innovation understanding into the context necessary.
Why not contact me to find out more about several unique ways we approach innovation through coaching or mentoring? Many of these become ‘deep dives’ to provide the necessary breakthroughs and sustain personal or team value investments.
Contact Paul at phobcraft@gmail.com to find out more about how he can help you with your innovation journey.
