Posts Tagged: grow

The Role of an Advisory Board in Start-Ups and Independent Businesses

Posted by Maria Milanetti & filed under Business, Family and Independent Business.

As the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) says, “it’s impossible for one person to know everything about their industry or business” (BDC, 2017). The concept of an Advisory Board, made up of knowledgeable business people, can provide experience and perspective that you may not have within your organization. These types of Boards are being… Read more »

Creating an Intelligent Organization

Posted by Edyta Pacuk & filed under Business, Organizational Transformation.

A short while ago I met a very successful Entrepreneur, who was preoccupied with the fact that his employees had not mastered basic English, nor could they handle simple math problems. He said his company was “growing stupid”. And, with the constantly increasing sophistication of his business and its customers, he was terrified that the… Read more »

How to Make Mentoring Work for You – A Mentor’s Perspective

Posted by Martine Sanscartier & filed under Leadership Development.

As a follow-up to our previous blog on Mentoring, this blog will focus on the mentoring relationship from a mentor’s perspective. As previously defined, mentoring consist of a pair of individuals working together in order to achieve specific objectives for skills growth and development. It is meant to be a balanced partnership requiring equal commitment… Read more »

How to Make Mentoring Work for You – A Protégé’s Perspective

Posted by Martine Sanscartier & filed under Leadership Development.

Mentoring, according to Chip Bell and Marshall Goldsmith in their “Managers as Mentors” book is, “At its most basic level, it is simply the act of helping another to learn.” For us at MarchFifteen, mentoring is defined as a pair of individuals working together in order to achieve specific objectives for skills growth and development…. Read more »