The Small Business Mentor Service is a free business support service aimed at providing business growth and job creation in the Wide Bay area including the Sunshine Coast.
The name for "mentor" comes from Greek mythology and is used to define a 'trusted friend and teacher,
a wise person'.
A Small Business Mentor is someone with extensive and successful business experience, talents and
skills who is willing to provide, without commercial gain, one-to-one guidance to people experiencing
business difficulties.
The Small Business Mentor Service is always recruiting mentors. These mentors are coming from the ranks of retired, semi-retired or still working successful business executives and specialists throughout the region. They are people with a sense of community service, who wish to contribute in a voluntary capacity, using their skills in a very worthwhile way.
Mentoring can range from being a formal one-on-one relationship with a client (or clients), with the Mentor providing wide ranging support on a regular basis, to a one-off telephone contact in regard to a specific problem, or even group mentoring, e.g. training, workshops, etc.