Hello Everyone,
I think I have my four requests for FREE Social Networking Mentoring. If that 4th person confirms, for about a month I probably can't do any more.
I'm hugely impressed by the quality of the people who've asked for help.
Firstly, they are not unskilled now, quite the opposite.
Secondly, they have experience and expertise that they bring to the discussion. The four in my little group have much to teach each other, and much to teach me.
Thirdly, the energy they have demonstrated already, tells me that in a few weeks we will accomplish a good deal.
I'm excited about what we are starting here.
Mentors
We need new mentors to volunteer HERE.
I suggest that you simply announce in this thread that you are available, and how many people you want to deal with.
I can offer a private group for each mentor at Online Groups, but two senior members here have told me that they prefer not to use yet another tool. That's OK, certainly for now. It might create some problems later, but my fears may also be groundless. So for now let's just move forward one step at a time.
I'd like to run a private group for mentors only on Online Groups. If this process takes off, as I hope it will, we should talk about what a good mentor should do. We should seek to establish some standards that Ryze would be proud to own, and that we ourselves are proud to stand by.
Mentees
As for people who might be able to benefit from mentoring. There is already a lesson in who the early mentees are. Not someone who is confused and isolated. The mentees are people who are successful already. They got there because in the past they were willing to ask for help. Perhaps I should say they had the confidence to ask for help. People who have a strong idea, and will do whatever needs to get done to achieve that.
There is already a lot of help here, in the Sticky Messages of this network, in resources Team Mom, Reg, Eileen and myself have made available on the web, in blogs and elsewhere of Ryze. 100's of pages of stuff actually. Using one of the senior members of this group as a mentor, will help you to find the stuff you need when you need it. You can't do everything at once.
By all means explore by wandering around, but the fastest way forward is to work in a tiny group, with someone who has a lot of experience. (There are at least 12, and maybe 20 people with a lot of experience here.)
John Stephen Veitch; The Network Ambassador
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