Download the Peer Mentoring Guide (PDF 410Kb)Peer mentoring was introduced to complement NESTA’s Starter for 6 initiative, an enterprise development programme for innovative creative start-up businesses.
This guide shares NESTA’s experience and learning of peer mentoring with creative businesses during that programme.
Peer mentoring is different from traditional forms of mentoring (parent-child models) as it involves near peers with one or two years more experience than their mentees (akin to teenager-child model). NESTA was keen to test the efficacy of this form of mentoring within a business context and considers the success of the peer mentoring pilot a valuable supplement to the Starter for 6 business development approach.
"Mentoring is to support and encourage people to manage their own learning in order that they may maximise their potential, develop their skills, improve their performance and become the person they want to be."
Eric Parsloe, The Oxford School of Coaching & Mentoring
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