Formicio

Making you successful

True mentors are those individuals who can help you see things through a different set of eyes, are willing to share their insights, prepared to challenge your thinking and help you explore alternative options. Their focus is on making you, not them, successful. To quote Socrates, the classical Greek philosopher:

“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realise how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”

It’s about helping people unlearn as well as learn

We all like to operate within our comfort zone and apply those ‘winning strategies’ that we have developed over the years. But what made us successful today may not be what we require to be successful tomorrow, and may in fact impede future success. Developing is therefore as much about unlearning as it is about learning, and a mentor can help in this process.

Proactive mentoring from Formicio

Our approach is different to the classical coaching approach as we bring our content knowledge and experience to the situation. We know that to be effective the mentor needs to fully understand the context and challenges facing the mentee. Only then can we advise and support in a way that is relevant and valuable to both the mentee and their organisation.

In addition to supporting people who have been assigned to a new role or assignment, or those struggling in their current role, we also provide support to teams. Typically these teams face a particular challenging objective, and they value having someone who has ‘done it before’ on hand to advise, challenge and support. While this is very different to team building, it invariably results in better team performance.

Our experience

Our team includes some of the best thinkers, advisers and practitioners in the world of business, technology and change. Over the years we have acted as mentor to many people and teams, including CEOs, COOs, CIOs, transformation change leaders and their teams. It’s gratifying to know that the knowledge and experience that we have accumulated over many years helps today’s business leaders to be more successful.

• Selected case study: Mentor Consulting for the Chief Operating Officer. Find out how coaching from Formicio developed the insights and skills the COO needed to be successful in his new role.