As part of Tamkeen’s range of Advisory services, Tamkeen and Mowgli Foundation concluded a four day Kickstart workshop which successfully matched 15 Bahraini entrepreneurs with 15 trained mentors. This workshop was the first milestone of the Mowgli Mentoring Experience programme (MME), a year long mentoring relationship designed to empower entrepreneurs and develop their personal and business capabilities.
Tamkeen’s Chief Executive, Dr. Ebrahim Mohamed Janahi expressed his satisfaction at the content and completion of the workshop, he said: “Tamkeen works on supporting Bahrainis across all stages of development. As part of this, it’s important that Bahraini entrepreneurs are given the right guidance and support along their development journey to be able to realise their goals and objectives. Through our partnership with Mowgli, which comes as part of Tamkeen’s advisory services, a group of Bahraini businesses will be able to receive long-term mentorship support from industry veterans and experts.”
Mowgli’s CEO Kathleen Bury, said, “Our programmes are designed to train and prepare mentors on how to effectively mentor their matched entrepreneurs as well as others. The matching process is conducted in a manner that enables each entrepreneur to be matched with the right mentor for them, to enable a solid and trust based mentoring relationship to be formed. It is truly an art and not a science.”
Bury concluded, “True mentoring is the key to empowering entrepreneurs. They do not need to be alone when facing the challenges associated with establishing or growing a business; having an objective support structure in the form of a trained mentor can keep them on the right track towards achieving their goals, support them in scenario planning and making sound decisions and continuously developing themselves on both personal and professional fronts.”
A structured, facilitated and supervised 12-month mentoring relationship between each entrepreneur and mentor now begins with various events, connection and impact data collection points to monitor and evaluate Mowgli’s 3 areas of impact: economic, business and personal.
This partnership comes as one of the first initiatives that are part of Tamkeen’s Advisory Services, a platform that Tamkeen launched to achieve the best possible results. The platform provides advisory and consultancy services to businesses, job-seekers and employees through a team of experts and industry veterans. This comes alongside the financial, operational and training support that Tamkeen provides to Bahraini businesses and individuals.