Mentors Attributes 

The relationship built between a client and a MIC often develops into life-long friendship with the following roles, responsibilities and duties:

Personal Vision

• Helps the client develop a personal vision;
• Helps the client strategize that personal vision.

Career

• Helps the client develop a satisfying career path;
• Helps the client strategize that career path.

Acts as

• An Oracle Mentor;
• Benefits to the organization far exceed the professional fees charged;
• A trainer in communication and life skills;
• A sounding board for ideas and concepts;
• Challenger and devil’s advocate;
• A life, business and executive coach rolled into one;
• A partner in the client’s life plans and career.

Team Advisory Attributes

Advisory Teams are flexible and vary in size and composition, yet, their objectives are identical – deliver the client value by providing excellent, timely, pragmatic, honest, achievable and cost effective advice and strategies that will assist the client achieve their objectives.

Advisory & Mentoring meet with the client to discuss, in some detail, the nature, extent and impact of the issues facing them. Advisory & Mentoring then compose a tentative Advisory Team to meet the client’s objectives and deal with its issues and challenges.

A tentative list of Advisory Team members with a description of each member’s skills and experience are presented to the client for their consideration. The client may meet with each prospective Team members, either face-to-face or virtually. The client can, of course accept or request an alternate specialist for any of the skills necessary for that Team.

A team leader is chosen by Advisory & Mentoring and approved by the client.

• The Team Leader is the communication point from Team members to the client and from the client to the Team members.
• The Team may meet (virtually) as frequently as needed by the client.
• The Team and client may choose to run sub-committees of the Team that includes client executives who may have their own agenda, tasks and timeframes, but which is coordinated through the Team Leader.
• Where larger projects or tasks are required and agreed by the client, the Team or some or one of its members may undertake it as a special project outside the Advisory Team with a unique financial arrangement.
• The client pays for the Advisory Team on a monthly retainer basis.

Information for Subject Experts 

 A Subject Expert is a specialist (i.e. expert) in one or more disciplines relating to business and organisations.

The title of “Expert” is one that we determine based on qualifications, experience, achievements and validated testimonials in the expert’s chosen areas of speciality.

We undertake a rigorous process of validating an expert’s credentials before we offer them to our clients.

A mentor can introduce a subject expert as required by the client. The initial one to two-hour discussion between the expert and the client are commonly free of charge.

The client may wish to engage the expert for a project or assignment following the initial discussion. In such a case, any commercial arrangements are between the expert and client. The initial meeting between the expert and the client are not used to sell the expert’s services to the client, but rather to help the client deal with the issues that brought the expert to the table.

The experts provide independent and expert advice to the client. Generally, they present to the client options and an understanding of the implications of those options. They are aware of current thinking on the issues related to their areas of expertise.

Mentors can organise and facilitate intensive confidential workshops to target/solve/brainstorm specific client issues. Experts may be invited to participate in or lead workshops for a fee.