Help to Grow: Management – How mentoring helped For the Love of the North prosper
Blog from Enterprise Nation
Enterprise Nation is one of the small business support providers delivering voluntary mentoring as part of the government's flagship Help to Grow: Management Course.
90% subsidised by the government and delivered in collaboration with industry experts and experienced entrepreneurs, the 12-week course provides a combination of online sessions and face-to-face learning, delivered by business schools. It's aimed at senior leaders of small and medium-sized businesses with five or more employees.
Mentorship is a crucial element of the course, with mentors providing insight into business processes and management, acting as a personal sounding board, facilitating networking, and encouraging creative thinking. Mentors also support participants in working towards a growth action plan for their business.
Senior business leaders who want to pursue mentoring can match with a mentor through the Help to Grow: Management Course platform. Once connected, they have access to 10 hours of one-to-one support.
We've already met our first mentoring match. In this blog, we spotlight For the Love of the North, a brilliant small business that has prospered since successfully matching to a mentor of its own.