Mowgli Foundation Blog

Much of the Mowgli Foundation blog has been devoted towards developing skills as an entrepreneur and as a mentor, but we have not really talked about Business Mentoring as an activity in it’s own right.  As you will know by now, the Mowgli Foundation mentors the worlds poorest entrepreneurs to help alleviate poverty and develop local economies.  In order to do this work we need to have skilled business focused mentors to work with us on a volunatary basis. Read the rest of this entry »

Social Intelligence is made up of a number of different facets and you can see more about the others in the initial post about the subject.  This week though, I’d like to consider Influence, what it means and how you can obtain it and what it might look like for an entrepreneur. Read the rest of this entry »

As an organisation we are constantly trying to strive to ensure that the service we provide matches the needs of both our entreprenuers and our mentors.  The only way we can do that of course is by measuring the results of the various aspects of the mentoring experience, both during the initial training and ‘getting to know you’ phase and the ongoing relationship that exists between mentor and mentee in to the future.   Our latest evaluation and feedback from the last programme in Syria has just been released and we’ve created a slideshare presentation of the information.  I’ve added it below for you to find out more. Read the rest of this entry »