Mentoring is certainly the buzz word at the moment.  Everywhere you turn, someone has come up with a new mentoring program that is better than the last and guarantees that your results will be amazing.  

So what sets each one apart?  What id like to do is find out which are the best ones, and which ones really aren’t worth the time and effort.  

Now we all get mentoring in some shape or form, although usually its not structured and its not called mentoring.  When you sit and chat with your girlfriends over coffee and talk through your work issues and then you get a couple of choices being made clearer to you, well thats mentoring.  Grant it, its not structured but it can usually help.  You also usually have different people who give you advice and support you through your work issues, family issues, marriage issues, financial issues.  

Now im not downplaying how great mentoring can be.  Im just really wondering what the difference is with each of them and why there is usually an extremely big difference in price depending on who is doing the mentoring.  

I have spoken to people who pay $50 an hour for a mentor.  At the other end of the scale, ive spoken to people who have paid $500 an hour for a mentor?   Is the difference really worth the price?  Is the advice that much better? Or different or life changing?  Well that is what i plan to find out, so stay tuned.

Tags: family, Mentoring, work

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