YBR – YBU Mentorship Experience Exchange with YBI Experts 01.08.2013

YBR – YBU Mentorship Experience Exchange with YBI Experts

Youth Business International experts held a presentation on young entrepreneur mentorship for the participants of Youth Business Russia and Youth Business Ukraine.  In the course of their meeting in St. Petersburg, the parties learned the world’s best mentoring practices, discussed positive aspects of an experienced mentor’s impact upon formation of a young entrepreneur’s startup.  

An important part of the meeting was collective drafting of a mentorship development action plan in the two countries – Russia and Ukraine. The event involved the leading managers of the programme in those two countries as well as mentorship experts who are introducing this important practice in the current business use.

Youth Business Russia was represented at the event by Head of the Branch Office IBLF in Russia, Manager of YBR Programme Boris Tkachenko, Programme Operations Manager Yelena Trakhtenberg, Programme Business Development Manager Viktor Glushko and Programme Mentorship Expert Irina Gorelova. Youth Business Ukraine was also represented by a strong delegation headed by Manager of YBU Programme Tatiana Gladisheva.

In the course of the meeting, the YBR team told the Ukrainian colleagues about some new tools intended for the use of mentorship coordinators in Russia, which can also be applied in other programmes within the YBI network. Summarizing the results of the event, the YBR and YBU teams formulated new strategies for their mentorship programmes taking into account the current international experience and innovative approach to developing the mentorship component presented by the YBI consultants.

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