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Giving and Gaining as a Mentor

Members of the Company are encouraged to become Mentors and contribute their time and experience to help expand the Mentoring Scheme.

Mentoring is a great way of ‘Giving and Gaining’. It is now well-recognised that mentoring experiences add to personal development through the shifts of perspective and the challenges encountered. Moreover, Company Members have found that the mentoring of senior individuals within the not-for-profit sector yields new friends and rich new veins of sector experience. Please email Bill Penney at: mentoring@wcomc.org for further information.

Why seek a Mentor?

Becoming a CEO seems to many highly capable senior managers in the voluntary sector as no more than ‘the next logical step’. Many do not fully recognise the fundamental nature of the step change that this new appointment involves - in reality, you will never have experienced the unique mix of relentless demands on your energy, resourcefulness and resilience that being a CEO demands … read on here.

Typical issues in mentoring
Typical outcomes in mentoring
 • Staff management and difficult interpersonal issues

• Better understanding of self and ability to manage others
• Business/strategic planning • A system in place that works for us
• Financial management • Greater financial control and reduced spend
• Introducing appraisals/ performance review • System up and running and appreciated by staff
• Coping with the isolation of the role • Better management of the highs and lows, a greater sense of confidence
• Restructuring of aspects of the work and organisation • Projects restructured and now funded and effective
• Supporting, challenging and motivating members of the management team to make changes • Better working relationships through improved ability to sell benefits and win confidence
• Concern to improve contributions • Finding ways to reach potential and contribute more


What else would you like to know about our Mentoring services?

How successful have WCoMC mentoring services been? Check the recent investigative report setting out the views of chief executives. The levels of over 80% satisfaction from CEOs with their mentoring quoted in this report are exemplary, as these additional testimonials also illustrate.

Why does the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants run Mentor Master Classes for its Members? Management consultants are trained to listen and address personal and organisational issues. The Mentor Master Classes that the Company provides enhance the existing skills of our Members, giving further assurance of successful mentoring outcomes.

Is there further information explaining the basis on which mentoring is undertaken by WCoMC? Yes. Please check our brief set of ground rules and also our standard terms.