{"id":1400,"date":"2011-07-05T08:17:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T08:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localenterprise.wordpress.com\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2011-07-05T08:17:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T08:17:13","slug":"stating-the-bleedin-obvious-unless-you-are-policy-wonk-or-their-lackey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2011\/07\/05\/stating-the-bleedin-obvious-unless-you-are-policy-wonk-or-their-lackey\/","title":{"rendered":"Stating the Bleedin’ Obvious…(unless you are policy wonk or their lackey…)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Not every small business or micro-enterprise owner needs a mentor.<\/li>\n
  2. Mentoring is NOT the only helping relationship.<\/li>\n
  3. Good mentors are\u00a0rarely\u00a0trained in ‘mentoring’, nor are they picked from a register.<\/li>\n
  4. Successful mentors are usually selected from within the pre-existing network of the mentee. \u00a0They are spotted and developed as someone from \u00a0whom the mentee really wants to learn.<\/li>\n
  5. Mentoring is an\u00a0intermittent\u00a0rather than a continuous relationship.<\/li>\n
  6. Access to good mentors is usually\u00a0restricted\u00a0and respectful rather than a tradeable commodity.<\/li>\n
  7. The success of the mentorship is usually down to the mentee rather than the mentor. \u00a0Good mentees know how to choose a mentor and manage the relationship with them to get the learning and the introductions that they need.<\/li>\n
  8. The commoditisation of mentoring is not a good thing.<\/li>\n
  9. Mentors are not coaches, advisers, consultants, counsellors or facilitators. \u00a0People looking to learn and develop themselves and\/or their organisations should think carefully about the\u00a0kind\u00a0of ‘help’ they need.<\/li>\n
  10. We should help people explore what they\u00a0want\u00a0to learn and how they are going to learn it – rather than\u00a0prescribe\u00a0yet another ‘cure-all’ that happens to be ‘affordable’.<\/li>\n
  11. We should focus our efforts on building social\u00a0learning\u00a0contexts and helping people manage their learning processes rather than setting up registers and schemes.<\/li>\n
  12. If the national association of image consultants got their lobbying act together I am sure we might all end up being encouraged to use a national register of image\u00a0consultants\u00a0in pursuit of GDP.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you are interested in implementing ill thought through policy and exploiting it as way to make a few bob please do not get in touch. \u00a0If on the other you are serious about building a context in which people \u00a0can really learn then I would love to hear from you.<\/p>\n

    Just leave a\u00a0comment\u00a0below.<\/p>\n