Mentoring for Growth Day – Online

Application is open for the Mentoring for Growth Day – Online. The M4G program provides free and confidential mentoring with business specialists to help you get through problems in your business or to help it grow. When you fill in this registration form, you need to advise what areas of your business you need assistance with, and the M4G team will match you to the business specialist who has the right type of knowledge to help.

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Eligibility

Businesses are welcome to attend a free session with experienced and skilled mentors approximately every 6 months.

The following information will help them to best match your business needs with our business mentors, so please be as honest and clear as possible.

• Business financials (approx. turnover, gross profit, net profit, and export value if you are exporting. Helpful information on this topic is here.)
• Employee numbers (headcount of employees, excluding contractors and management)
• At least two sentences for each of the following topics:
  • Business description and history
  • Vision and goals
  • Products, services, and customers
  • Opportunities
  • Challenges
• If you have a business plan, you can also attach a copy to your registration, but it is not mandatory to do so. You can find information and resources about business planning, including a business plan template on the Business Queensland website here.
• Note: A mentoring session can only be scheduled if sufficient information is provided in the registration questions. This information is supplied to the mentors involved in your session and helps them to best match a mentor to your business needs.
• If you are finding it difficult to complete the registration form at this time, and/or would like to be referred to your local departmental regional office, please email m4g@desbt.qld.gov.au.
• Once they have received your completed registration form, they will start to organize a mentoring session for you.
• Agreement to the conditions in the Mentee terms and conditions is required for participation in the program. You will be asked to acknowledge and accept these conditions before you can continue your registration. All of the M4G mentors have also signed a Mentor Deed Poll, which sets out the obligations of both mentors and mentees under the program and ensures confidentiality.

Benefits

M4G mentors can help you with a range of business challenges or opportunities including business planning and development, cash flow, finance and accounting, government funding applications, marketing, technology, intellectual property, and long-term growth strategies.

The Queensland Government’s Mentoring for Growth (M4G) program offers free and confidential mentoring sessions where you are matched with business experts to help you understand business processes, talk through a problem in your business or identify business growth opportunities. We have multiple 45-minute sessions available each day.

Experienced M4G mentors can assist you with anything related to your business and you can register for a mentoring session at any time. Once you register your interest, the team will contact you to schedule an available session for your business.

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Application Process

• Register for a 45-minute mentoring session to help you find the right person to talk to about challenges and opportunities in your business.
• This registration form will take about 15-20 minutes to complete
• As you will not have the opportunity to save your registration and continue at a later date, please have the following documents and information ready before starting to complete your registration.
• You will be contacted by a departmental officer to discuss your registration within 3 business days.
  It is important to note that registering your interest does not automatically mean you will join the program.
• Click here to apply

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