Improving your performance with CEO mentoring
You did not end up being a CEO without great skill and experience. You may have worked your way up through the ranks, joining a new company in a higher position, or starting a new company. You must now lead, attract, motivate and organise the key people in your organisation. But not every CEO will have the complete set of skills that a company needs and there are often not many people you can talk to about your company’s strategies and processes.
But being a CEO does not mean you need to go it alone. This is where having a CEO mentor can help, improving your performance and your companies. Whatever you discuss with a CEO mentor will remain confidential, and vice versa, as your mentor will also share their own successes and mistakes.
Your CEO Mentor will ask the right questions, help you identify blind spots and share wisdom based on years spent in executive roles, to help you make an even greater impact on your organisation. Giving you the confidential, real-world advice you need, the additional strategic clarity to solve your toughest challenges and renewed energy in your work and life.
Remember mentorship does not only need to be business-related. A lot of variables factor into the performance of a CEO that include how the person balances work and leisure. For this reason, having a mentor could make all the difference in the long-term success of a business.
Carving out time to meet with a mentor and sticking to that schedule is the other major challenge for CEO’s. You often operate on a tight schedule, and stopping for an extra meeting may not always be possible unless a commitment is made.
A CEO mentor can assist with:
• Formulating strategy.
• Facilitating business growth.
• Testing your leadership or management approach in a non-threatening environment.
• Advising on mergers and acquisitions or expansion into new markets.
• Making a business investor-ready or getting a business ready for sale.
• Balancing the dynamics and challenges mixing of business with family.