100 GrowthMentor reviews
I’ve been in GrowthMentor since 2020. After 200 sessions and 100 reviews, it’s time to share the retrospective work.
Associate with people who are likely to improve you. and welcome those who are capable of improving.
The process is mutual: people learn as they teach. Here's my experience as a mentor.
Growth Mentor Meet up, Athens, Greece, Q3 2023
Why do I mentor?
Mentorship is a catalyst for learning, benefiting both mentor and mentee. By teaching, we're forced to organize our thoughts and articulate our knowledge clearly, often uncovering gaps or new connections in our understanding. This process of preparation and explanation reinforces our own learning, while simultaneously passing wisdom to others.
Becoming a key person of influence
As an initiative, mentoring fits multiple areas from the Key Person of Influence framework I use for personal branding.
Mentoring creates a new profile to host reviews for my brand;
Reviews from great sessions become content for my network;
The network of new potential partners you maintain is extra value;
Mentoring becomes one extra step in the product ecosystem.
If you want to keep digging, I had the opportunity to explain how I see scaping the competition trap with personal branding in a GrowthMentor workshop with Vassy.
Solving for exposure
One of the best things I've done in my early days when transitioning from engineering to marketing was working at an agency. Ladder.io connected me with many brilliant minds, and if I got to GrowthMentor today, it's because I had Mike Taylor in the office as a mentor.
After moving to in-house Product roles, GrowthMentor and LunchClub became my evergreen channels to share and give back to the community, my weekly dose of exposure to problems and people outside my bubble.
That helps the flywheel fly.
GrowthMentor email celebrating 100 reviews 😂
Simple mentoring style
I got the first 50 calls quite fast and I noticed mentees would benefit from a standard approach to having a productive and satisfying call.
After 100 calls I had improved my routine to be the most helpful to people while requiring little preparation time.
Upon session request, I react with one or many of the five themes:
What’s the Goal? How are you measuring if you’re moving closer to this goal?
What’s the current Reality? What have you tried?
What are the options and Obstacles? What assumptions do you currently hold that you haven’t put to the test?
What’s the Way forward?
What is your main Takeaway from today’s call?
Word mining GrowthMentor reviews data with GPT
How many times I've done review mining to help commerces find trends in the voice of their customers.
As I grow life using product frameworks, it's time to mine my GrowthMentor reviews and find personality traits.
Don't go alone, grow with a mentor
“Use Consultants” is a gem from Mr. Beast's leaked PDF playbook, and Foti did great connecting the dots with what the GrowthMentor community is about.
When you need to learn quickly, learn from others. When you need to learn deeply, learn from experience.
Here's an opportunity to access a hub of giants and learn quickly, join the Growth Mentor community today.
Want to give it a try? Get a free pass on me here.
Sources of wisdom
100 Growth Mentoring sessions later: Why do it and how to do it right? by Vassylena Valchanova
