Invest in Your Future with Mentoring

Why is mentoring such a treasured investment for your company? Whether you are an enterprise or an individual, mentoring creates a trusting environment to grow whole.

Mentoring makes way for trusted dialogue -- there's always room for a sounding board. In business, one shouldn't always have to rely on an app to give us the answers or solutions. A company's best asset is its human capital. The individuals working together in your office will create new methods and propose new solutions. Mentoring is especially needed in our hybrid environments -- it provides a bridge among all levels and all stages.

Incorporating mentoring in a business is an important "knowledge-transfer" opportunity for forward thinking so that critical and efficient decisions can be made while navigating an ever-changing landscape. While change creates opportunities, critical thinking with the aid of a mentor leads to trusted conversations that help people to grow and innovate.

As an individual progressing in your career, it is important to tap into resources around you such as personal development books and leadership conferences but the best, most invaluable resource is to find a mentor. Don't quietly hope for learning to come to you. You need to seek it out. The best learning comes from learning about someone else's experiences.

With the guide of a mentor, your willingness to grow becomes intentional. Intentional growth leads to success.

Finding a mentor means that you are taking the biggest step towards investing in yourself. If you have goals for yourself, committing to them on your own, alone, can be daunting. But, telling someone else about them, how you think you need to reach your goal, and hearing feedback from someone who has taken a similar  trajectory is priceless reinforcement. Their presence in your life will bolster you. 

At Forte Designs, we've created mentorship programs at the corporate and individual level. We've watched those mentorship programs become successful incubator programs. Most of all, we've seen companies and their employees thrive. The four pillars that we like to emphasize at Forte Designs are: trust, integrity, purpose and critical thinking. A mentorship program instills the core values and pillars that lead to growth in leaps and bounds.