If your job is to grow businesses, BMI can help. BMI's role is to support communities, industries and special interest groups in their efforts to plan, launch, and maintain programs that provide high standard mentorship experiences for local innovators.
Increase service continuity for your clients.
Throughout the course of their venture, there may be a number of occasions where support from other agencies is required. Business mentorship allows your clients the opportunity to develop a relationship with one person they can trust to guide them. From their perspective, this is a tremendous benefit to membership in your organization.
Diversify your program offerings.
People are intuitive risk-managers; if they feel there is enough support, they will dare to venture forward. A mentor is an easily understood benefit for anyone seeking to grow in some way. For this reason, a mentorship program will promote entrepreneurship in the community. It can also expand your client base. More people will be drawn toward membership in your organization if you provide the opportunity to become protégés.
Build economic development capacity.
Mentors provide their business experience to entrepreneurs. This will help your organization to retain businesses in your community. It also helps businesses to expand. The BMI network provides access to the tools you need to launch and maintain a successful mentorship program.
Improve long-term sustainability of development strategies.
Business retention and expansion initiatives are more successful when you include mentorship in your overall strategy. Buy-in is intrinsic to the process of mentoring and being mentored. For this reason, protégés tend to become mentors. Everybody wins and keeps winning.
The tools you need, to quantify your program results, are available through BMI. They will help you to explain your program's immediate and long-term results to stakeholders.
Develop your professional skills and career portfolio.
The work of coordinating the efforts of volunteers in a knowledge exchange network is different from providing the support yourself. Take advantage of BMI's Train the Trainer course. More than just tips on how to run training sessions, this course provides insight into the processes of best practice in knowledge transference.
Become a better communicator, trainer and volunteer coordinator today!