Greater Manchester Growth Company Business mentoring

Businesses owners often face issues and challenges that are not necessarily addressed by traditional sources business support. Sometimes specific business or sector experience is required from people or organisations who have been there and done it successfully! The GC Mentoring Programme enables businesses to access mentors to benefit from their experience.
Businesses (SMEs) are referred to the GC Business Growth Hub through the various in-house business support programmes. They are referred at the appropriate time for them so that they have already received support for the business and are now looking for personal development through the use of a mentor on a particular topic/challenge that they are facing. Each mentee completes a profile which provides information about themselves and the challenges, the type of mentor they would like including skill set, knowledge, experience and personality. This profile is then used by the mentoring team to complete a matching exercise where the profiles of the mentors are looked at t ensure an appropriate match is made on both sides. Both are introduced to each other via email and they are also asked to complete an induction pack which contains a code of conduct, statement of understanding about responsibilities and roles, confidentiality etc. Both parties understand what is expected of them and what they are aiming to achieve, working to a common goal.