Professional mentoring works on the individual's career moment. I often meet professionals who are faced with the so-called “glass ceiling”, that is, they have already accomplished everything they could at a certain point in their careers, but still want to progress, and therefore seek the next level.

Some can count on the support of a mentor, a professional who has greater experience than yours, who reached the top of his market and can really help you who are starting your journey. In a mentorship, it is possible to develop a more attractive vision of the future, resolve conflicts regarding the desired change, align goals and, above all, help to believe in yourself and your capabilities.

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Who is this process applied to? They are usually those people who are in a career decision moment and don't know what the next step is.

Where to find Mentorship?

A good part of my assistance comes from Sebrae, due to the fact that I was a facilitator of Empretec — a methodology of the United Nations (UN) that seeks to develop characteristics of entrepreneurial behavior and identify new business opportunities — which allowed me to travel around Brazil to provide advice to entrepreneurs.

After that experience at Sebrae, I decided to continue with my own legs and set up my company, Global Mentoring Group and today I'm in Lisbon, to carry out these trainings in Portugal as well. Although Empretec was a program that I really liked to do, it provided me with a good financial gain, I was looking for more and ended up achieving my goals.

In this way, with my particular example, I ended up becoming a reference for people, so that I can help them to make the best decisions before doing something that can often be a breakthrough, from one hour to the next, and that can end up being misguided or at the wrong time. With mentoring, you can better prepare for this moment.

Another audience that can also benefit greatly from mentoring is young people who are starting their professional careers. Ideally, he should consult a mentor or advisor before deciding which course to follow. We know today that the university as a whole is going through a very big difficulty. The courses currently offered form a hostile environment that often no longer exists. It is a creation, it is an indoctrination, for an environment that is already past. You have to think about the future.

Young people should seek professional mentorship first of all

If young people sought a mentor before starting their professional career, it would be easier to decide which moment they should follow. But normally, that doesn't happen. The person will only be concerned when looking for a job and ends up realizing that there are a range of new professions, people seeking a career in the public service through public examinations, others who decide to undertake. So, she ends up with a question mark in her head: “Am I going to be one more?”.

When the person wants to decide the next step, he can take the training and make the best decision. Many choose to do the program to be able to learn how to become a mentor and guide people to take the next step. It is not about resolving past issues or emotional pains from past situations – it is not going to analyze the whys of the mentee be the way you are.

The mentor should not just draw on his experience; it is important that he seeks to improve himself, so that he can help others. Mentees to evolve, in addition to seeking to increase their key skills, find sources of continuous motivation, remove mental barriers, modify problematic attitudes and behaviors that reduce their effectiveness.

An effective Mentor must understand the mentee as someone with endless possibilities and all the resources they need to effect change. In addition to realizing that all behavior has a positive purpose: there is no such thing as “failure”, everything is feedback.

Claudio Brito is a mentor of mentors and CEO of the Global Mentoring Group, an international group focused on high performance mentors, based in the United States. Specialized in Digital Marketing by Fecap-SP and in Group Dynamics by SBDG, he has 21 years of experience and trained with masters such as Alexander Osterwalder, Steve Blank and Eric Ries. In addition, he regularly attends high-impact training at Babson, Harvard and MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology. To learn more, visit https://globalmentoringgroup.com/ or @claudiombrito or @globalmentoringgroup

About Global Mentoring Group

GMG's mentoring program is based on major world centers of study and development such as MIT, Stanford, Harvard and on startup acceleration processes in Silicon Valley. It is a process of transmitting knowledge, which aims to provoke insights in the mentee and is used both to stimulate someone at the beginning of their career, as well as those who need to stand out in their position, an employee who has just joined a corporation, or a senior professional who is facing, or will face, new challenges in the company or outside it.

To learn more, visit https://globalmentoringgroup.com/ or @claudiombrito or @globalmentoringgroup