The Plato Group's Guide to Effective Mentorship

    MIAMI, FL, October 12, 2014 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The Plato Group is an outsourced sales and marketing firm based in Miami, Florida. The firm provide many businesses throughout the US with effective direct marketing solutions, specializing in face to face marketing. On behalf of their clients The Plato Group meet with consumers in person and take the time to learn about each customer as an individual. This allows their clients to adapt their services to suit individual consumer needs, which improves the relationships between the client and their consumers and encourages an increased rate of customer loyalty.

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The Plato Group's 'People centric' approach isn't just limited to their marketing services; it's also something they've been keen to instil in their own business model. The firm believe it's important to support and develop their representatives, whose hard work and dedication has helped the firm achieve impressive growth over the last 12 months. The Plato Group offer a business development program to all their representatives who wish to develop their entrepreneurial and leadership skills. The program allows The Plato Group to act as mentors and share their vast business knowledge with those looking to progress within the industry.

The business development program has helped shape a number of promising entrepreneurs and business leaders over the last few months. Most recently the firm were able to promote two new assistant managers to help support the firm as they carry out exciting new expansion plans in Orlando. The firm believe that mentorship and support is a vital part of business, and that young entrepreneurs can benefit far more from learning through the experiences of others than from textbooks and classroom learning. To help other businesses nurture the talent of their young workers, The Plato Group have shared the following tips for becoming an effective mentor.

Willingness
Mentors must be willing to share all they know and be able to communicate clearly and precisely, avoiding industry jargon. Being a mentor requires a lot of dedication. Poor mentoring not only wastes the mentors time, it also wastes the time of those they are teaching, time that they could be using to learn from others in the industry. The Plato Group believe mentors should take the time to prepare for sessions, by gaining a clear understanding of what the mentees would like to gain from the overall experience.

Approachability
Obviously mentors have busy schedules; however it's important for mentors to allow their mentees to feel comfortable approaching them for extra help or guidance. Mentors should set out a schedule with their mentee, allowing enough time to give them the attention they need.

Honesty
Mentor's must be straightforward in their approach, ensuring no questions remain unanswered. The Plato Group believe a good way to address this is to open up a lively, informal dialogue from the get go.

Inquisitiveness
It is a mentor's responsibility to be an endless fountain of knowledge to their mentees. It is therefore vital for mentors to be constantly seeking out and learning about changes and developments within their industry.

For entrepreneurs looking for a mentor, contact The Plato Group now at [email protected] for more information.

The Plato Group is an outsourced sales firm specializing in face-to-face direct marketing techniques in order to provide their clients with a high ROI and quality sales.

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