Mentoring for Enterprise

Thinking of setting up a mentoring scheme?
Here are some top tips to improve the chances of success:

Educate mentees in how to choose and use a mentor – this will provide a better return on investment than training people in how to be good mentors
Offer a mentor matching service – but always encourage people to look [...]

Tackling Enterprise Head On Is Wrong-Headed

Most projects designed to promote enterprise tackle the problem head on.
When we say that a community ‘lacks’ enterprise we are saying that we believe fewer businesses are starting per head of population than is ‘normal’.  Typically in a community that ‘lacks’ enterprise you might get 4 new starts per hundred adults per year.  In an [...]