Develop your team

Mentiway guides the mentor and mentee step by step along the mentoring path. In the heat of the moment, it is possible to forget certain agreements, records, reflections or tasks to be completed. However, the app does not let you forget - it is a great companion to the mentoring process, an assistant for both participants. It binds the process together and does not let anything slip.

Mentoring is an opportunity to develop on many levels. I made the decision to participate in the programme immediately. Development is important to me and the opportunity to meet with a mentor on a regular basis is a great chance to broaden my horizons, share thoughts and experiences and clash perspectives. Each session has been extremely valuable and developing. Mentoring helps to sort out a lot of issues, makes you reflect and motivates you to take action.

During mentoring sessions, I often had the opportunity to experience a completely different perspective that encouraged me to reflect on an issue or situation I was trying to deal with. This different perspective allowed me to see new possibilities and, through it, I gained a better understanding of my strengths and weaknesses. What's more, after each meeting with the Mentor I left full of energy and motivation, which was a trigger point for even more self-development.

It is useful to benefit from the knowledge of more experienced people. It's easier to respond to challenges when you go through them together with someone who can share their stories on a similar topic and ways of dealing with difficulties. It's such a 'safe space' of thought, sometimes a bit like 'business psychotherapy'.

Archetypically, I am a Companion, a Sage and a Rebel. And I think it was my archetypes, among others, that pointed me down the path of mentoring, which I have been on for several years now. For me, it's a process in which I, myself, can realise any needs arising from the above. As a Companion, I am there, understanding and supporting. As a Sage, I like to educate and share experience. As a Rebel, I like to challenge the status quo and therefore ask sometimes uncomfortable questions, provoke and make people think. For me, it is also a process of watching the Mentee grow.... Every time, it is an enriching experience, sometimes even full of emotion, because a mentoring relationship can be a really deep and very developmental work from which both parties draw and take what is most useful.

Being a mentor gives me the opportunity to meet extraordinary people who often look at the established norms in business with a critical eye. I then look at these foundations myself and rethink whether they really make sense to me. I also love the enthusiasm and freshness of the mentees, which I also enjoy.

Being a mentor is a new adventure full of challenges and discoveries for me every time. I have enjoyed participating in the development of business ideas as a mentor for the Enactus project, drawing from the participants an enthusiastic approach to launching their own businesses. Through my work with Mentees, I am able to constantly broaden my perspective and the palette of tools I use to manage my team.