职场导师制如何发挥实效

    • 保持积极而有效的关系。如果创业者认为导师回应不够及时，或者没有共同语言，不必犹豫，马上结束这种关系。一定要记住，对于创业者，导师所处的位置既能给创业者带来帮助，也可能带来伤害，所以不要浪费他们的时间，甚至引起导师的反感和敌意。

    创业者如果有意寻找一位导师，选择的对象必须是那些真正关心创业者个人成长，真心希望创业者取得事业成功的人。这种感情上的投入和真切的关心才是导师发挥作用的关键所在。

    有人认为，吃一堑长一智，只有亲身经历错误，才能汲取经验教训。但有大量证据证明，通往商业成功的捷径便是找到长期研究成功诀窍的导师，站在他们肩膀上采摘成功的果实。作为创业者，如果连让导师关系发挥作用都无法做到，又何谈经营好一家公司呢？

    本文作者马蒂•兹威灵为初创企业专业咨询公司（Startup Professionals Inc）创始人兼CEO。

    译者：阿龙/汪皓

    • Keep the relationship positive and productive. If a mentor proves to be unresponsive or on a different wavelength, bow out of the relationship immediately. Be aware that mentors are usually in a business position that can hurt you as well as help you, so don't waste their time or antagonize them.

    When you consciously and deliberately seek out a mentor, you must look for someone who genuinely cares about you as a person and who really wants you to be successful in your venture or your career. That emotional involvement and genuine concern for you are the keys to real mentor contributions.

    Some people will say that they need to make all their own mistakes, in order to learn from them. Yet there is plenty of evidence that the fastest way to business success is by piggy-backing on the counsel of men and women who have already spent years learning how to succeed. If you can't make a mentor relationship work, I worry about the rest of your business as well.

    Marty Zwilling is CEO & Founder of Startup Professionals Inc.