Experience exchange session by Mentoring Institute for the Business Class Programme mentors (Google and Sberbank)

In the evening on the 13^th of April, an interesting informal event for practicing and potential mentors working at the Business Class programme was held at Google offices.

The event was opened by Madina Tyuryaeva, Mentor Relations Manager, who told about mentoring component of the Business Class programme and mentor relations scenario.

Next, several mentors who have already started mentoring activity talked about their progress, first achievements and challenges. The discussion was moderated by Boris Tkachenko and Irina Gorelova.

Later, they have arranged an activity with the audience split into groups dedicated to the key challenges facing the mentors working with mentees. 5 groups delivered their results that were keenly discussed by all the participants and commented by Boris and Irina with the benefit of their 10-year experience in mentoring projects.

After having learnt more about mentoring at this event, many entrepreneur participants decided to join the programme as mentors. The potential mentors will fill out online questionnaires at the programme website and will be interviewed by Madina Tyuryaeva. They will then complete online training, take a test and meet their mentees.

The event was wrapped up with Q&A session and informal networking.