Peer Mentoring

Making a difference as a Peer Mentor

Introduction

You've completed a Good Health @ Work Award and want to continue to grow and develop your business and your professional development, so what can you do next?

Peer Mentoring may be for you

Our Peer Mentoring programme works by matching mentors who have completed the award and have specific knowledge or skills they are happy to share with other businesses in Suffolk that would benefit from advice, support and guidance to either complete the award or improve and grow their business.

Peer Mentoring is an excellent opportunity to develop coaching skills, increase your influence in the business community and gain personal satisfaction. While mentees benefit from the advice, guidance, and encouragement of someone more skilled, and the insight into the local business community.

I'm interested in Peer Mentoring

Impact

To fully understand the benefits of peer support used by businesses, volunteer organisations and community groups, the Development Trusts Association worked with their programme creators to build a research base using 10 years worth of feedback.

The feedback was overwhelmingly positive for both mentors and mentees and third party organisations invested in their success, such as local authorities.

The DTA compiled an inexhaustive list of the most reported benefits by mentees and these include:

Building Confidence
Skill Building
Knowledge Transfer
Cultivating Creativity
Expanded Networks
Improved Problem Solving and Decision Making
Fostering Resilience
Self Reflection
Improved Sense of Business Direction
Support System
Tailored Support
Personal Growth and Development

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Some of the mutual benefits to both mentor and mentee reported to DTA included:

Continual cycle of innovation and best practices
Building a culture of sustainability and resilience
Encouragement in the face of challenges
Constructive challenge and collaboration
Unexpected outcomes and ripple effects

Resources

Our Peer Mentors

Acorn Transform
Anglia Living
Autonomous Ideas
Bateman Elegant Events
Cashmere Coaching
Orwell Housing

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