Develop your team

Mentiway guides mentors and mentees step by step along the mentoring path. In the flow of everyday work, it is easy to forget certain agreements, notes, reflections or tasks. The app helps prevent that — it is a great companion in the mentoring process and an assistant for both participants. It brings the process together and ensures that nothing slips through the cracks.

Mentoring is an opportunity to develop on many levels. I decided to join the programme immediately. Development is important to me, and the opportunity to meet with a mentor regularly is a great chance to broaden my horizons, exchange thoughts and experiences, and challenge my perspective. Each session has been extremely valuable and developmental. Mentoring helps organise many issues, encourages reflection and motivates me to take action.

During mentoring sessions, I often had the opportunity to experience a completely different perspective, which encouraged me to reflect on an issue or situation I was trying to deal with. This helped me see new possibilities and better understand my strengths and weaknesses. What’s more, after each meeting with my mentor, I left full of energy and motivation, which became a trigger for even further self-development.

It is valuable to benefit from the knowledge of more experienced people. It is easier to respond to challenges when you go through them together with someone who can share similar stories and ways of dealing with difficulties. It creates a kind of safe space for reflection — 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.