The mentor program is available to all entrepreneurs honestly seeking to advance their personal and business development by way of one-on-one mentoring. The 12 month program provides you with 2 hours per month with your mentor. You also have access to our online platform where you can set goals, track your progress and milestones, and get access to content and missions from the exclusive mentoring platform library.
Gain qualitative and subjective counselling and be inspired by your mentor to believe you are capable of producing, executing and achieving.
Learn through experience and observation, often side stepping obstacles and hurdles due to your mentor’s willingness to gift experience and tangible, transferrable advice.
Define and set long-term goals with appropriate steps to realise those goals.
Select the mentor program that is suitable to your business and pay your program fee.
You will be sent links to sign up to our online platform and complete your mentee profile, providing detail on your business goals and focus areas.
Book in your on-boarding interview with a member of the Rare Birds team.
Your mentee interview is conducted via video-conference where we find out your business goals and priorities, challenges and bottlenecks so that we can find a mentor to help you with your specific needs.
After your interview has been conducted you will be matched with a mentor within one to two months.
Once you've been matched you will receive a notification and instructions to book your kick-off meeting with your mentor. In this meeting you will both set goals and objectives and sort out the practical "stuff" - who's doing what and when.
"After a very fruitful first meeting, it became apparent very quickly that we were a perfect match. I truly feel that I will be able to help my mentee to reach the operational, marketing and financial goals she has set over the coming 12 months. Being a soundboard for Dee, sharing my experiences, sharing my time management skills, sharing with her the fundamentals of marketing, finance and operations, the best and the worst practices for business, and a number of contacts in my networks, all of this has given me a refresher course for myself. After doing something for so long we often forget the fundamentals and often forget that through fresh eyes, engagement and communication come ideas and innovation.”
- Tim Elwin, Rare Birds Mentor
“It is great to see how connecting and mentoring can make such a difference and it is a very gratifying journey. Mentoring also provides clarity on the what and why in my own business. I cannot work with Philomena on an area and not make sure that I apply the same sense and sensibility in my own business. Mentoring is a great sense check on what I do and why I do it.”
- Mentor: Celia Jordaan, Principal Procurement Advisor - Ichiban Commercial Solutions
“It’s been going really well! Judith is so lovely and has been an incredible help and I've already been able to action the things we’ve looked at. She's great she jumps right in and runs with my questions. She's amazing. There's been no fluffing around, get stuff down.”
- Tanya Demello, Rare Birds OFW Scholarship Recipient, Mentee
“I am enjoying being a Rare Birds mentor, it is giving me a lot of personal satisfaction and I am getting a lot back from my mentee, she is helping me to achieve some of my own goals and objectives both with my business and through our mentorship.’
- Mentor: Emma Fraser, Founder - Fraser Marketing International
“ Starting a new venture can be lonely, scary and exhilarating all at the same time. Taking your offerings international for the first time sends those emotions into hyperdrive. It is an absolute pleasure to be able to help my Rare Birds mentee Annie make huge leaps and kick arse. It is so satisfying personally to see her work really hard overcoming her fears, mastering new skills, making new connections and ultimately, making the world a better place."
Mentor: Mark Phillips, Founder - Business in Bare Feet
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Becoming a mentor can be a great way of sharing your knowledge and experience as well as perfecting your skills at developing others. Your role is all about guidance and helping your entrepreneur to achieve their goals and realise their potential. You’ll help them understand problems, identify solutions and implement their plans. While you won’t get paid for being a mentor, there are lots of other benefits that come with the role – such as:
The chance to pass on all you have learned about good business to someone who will benefit from your experience.
To practice your managerial skills and guide your mentee through a key stage in their career.
A boost to your own career by adding mentorship to your skillset. You’ll learn as much from your mentoree as they do from you.
We appreciate that your time is limited, therefore all we ask is that you commit two (2) hours each month for twelve months. Communication with your mentee can be in person, on the phone, and/or through free apps such as Skype or Google Hangout.
Mentors and mentees are matched through Rare Birds’ online platform via an algorithm that matches candidates based on their skillset, personality, experience and business needs. Once we run your match sessions on the platform, the Rare Birds team then assesses your mentor match personally to assure they are a good fit personality-wise as well as business-wise.