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Searching For A Mentor? 16 Questions To Help You Find The Right One
Mentors are valuable assets to entrepreneurs, especially new or aspiring ones. But finding the right match for you can be difficult.
It’s important to vet your choices rather than settle for the first available person. Mentors should understand your personal and professional goals, as well as your strengths, weaknesses and any possible concerns.
To help you determine whether someone is the right mentor for you, try asking yourself these 16 questions, recommended by the experts of Forbes Coaches Council.
Members of Forbes Coaches Council detail questions to ask yourself in order to find a mentor that fits.
15 Key Steps For Making Values-Based Decisions In Business
When you’re faced with a challenging business decision, it can be difficult to know where to turn for guidance. One of the best guiding forces a leader can follow is their company’s values.
Values-based decision-making ensures that everyone in the organization understands why a choice was made, and how it reflects the overall mission of the company. To help you follow this practice, we asked members of Forbes Coaches Council how leaders can incorporate values-based decision making into their company. Their best responses are below.
15 Common Leadership Communication Problems (And How To Correct Them)
One of the biggest challenges of being a leader is communicating effectively with a variety of stakeholders. Even the most competent leaders can sometimes have difficulties communicating with their clients, teams and supervisors. However, honing your communication skills and learning how to get your message across clearly is the key to successful leadership.
To help, we asked members of Forbes Coaches Council what common communication problems they see among business leaders. Here are 15 issues they’ve spotted and how they recommend correcting and overcoming them.

New Book by Candice Gottlieb-Clark
Even the most talented and well-meaning leaders have blind-spots. Gaps in their awareness impact teamwork, create conflict, lead to a loss of talent.