Mentoring – Golden Globe’s big winner

Despite not getting to the movies as often as I’d like, I enjoy the awards nights that seem to crowd around the first part of the year. Last night’s Golden Globe Awards main honoree was Steven Spielberg, whose presentation was articulate and real and contained the wisdom and clarity that you’d expect from some so accomplished in his field. The part of his acceptance speech that I resonated with most was his endorsement of mentoring. He related the words that his mentor said to him: “I will always be there for you in success. But I will also be there for you in hard times.” and spoke of who in the industry had mentored whom mentioning names like movie greats including Martin Scorcese and Ron Howard. So, if mentoring can be a key part of an industry that could be said to be highly competitive, then there is certainly room for mentoring within all areas of learning and development. Mentors have played (and will continue to play) a key part in my business and personal development and I am fully committed to supporting women in (especially small) business to work with a mentor to grow, advance, enhance, plan their business.