Mentoring

Mentoring is a place where you learn wisdom, where someone is willing to listen and motivate you to stay on the right path. A mentor can be an expert who has experienced the very challenges you are facing. Your mentor will guide you in business, career development, and personal goals.

A mentor is both an advisor and a friend. They have the knowledge and experience of a consultant, but act and are trusted like a true friend.

A NEW MENTORING SEASON IS ABOUT TO BEGIN
2020–2021 Season: SOMEONE LISTENS TO YOU

"Don’t be a tennis coach, be a tennis player who rallies with them. Let them decide the pace—your job as a Mentor is to listen and observe.”
— Ted Nuyen, veteran Mentor in the SME Mentoring program

Are you looking for someone who listens without judgment? Someone who can ask questions that help you find your own answers and accompany you on your growth journey as an entrepreneur? One of the three companions you should seek alongside a coach or industry advisor is a personal development mentor.

Mentoring is a space where we can learn wisdom, where there is a “wise old friend” who is ready to listen and encourage the mentee on the path they desire.

OFFICIAL REGISTRATION TO BECOME A MENTOR - MENTEE

Welcome to the SME Mentoring 1:1 Hanoi community, Season 9 (2025 - 2026).

Thank you for considering joining our program and reaching this registration step.
However, before filling out the form, please make sure you have read all the articles below to truly understand how we define mentoring, mentor, and mentee. This will help ensure that over the next 12 months, we align our expectations for the program and for each other (mentor - mentee).

Workshop  "APPLYING MENTORSHIP PROGRAM IN SMES"

1. You are a Woman starting a business, and you
=> have been getting a lot of difficulties/pressure from business and family?
=> Don't know who to share it with?
=> are confused about the upcoming business plan?

2. You are the one who has been in business for a long time and:
=> Need to find new ideas/updates from young people
=> Want to dedicate, share back to local businesses

Mentoring is a long journey to establish and maintain a trustworthy friendship between a wise old man and an energetic young guy. 

Mentoring itself was not born for startups only but actually for people from all walks of life, ranging from university students who are companied by their professors or senior students to employees who are supported by their managers or other colleagues. 

In hopsitality, it is inevitable that meeting more mentors means more opportunity to collaborate and go to global market. However, as a sector with many smaller subsectors, hospitality poses a variety of challenges and obstacles to startups in terms of finding a mentor.

Is it easy to become a mentor? What are characteristics of a good mentor? You may wonder those questions when becoming mentor for startup at first time.

So, how to be a good mentor?

We hold Orientation day for Mentor - How to be a good Mentor in order for Mentors Class 2017 to prepare for the next 12-month journey and bring Mentoring concepts to the public.

No theory or training. Just share and support from preceding mentors