CEDA Accreditation

Qualities of our accredited mentors

Our mentors possess the following skills that can assist different businesses through different stages:

• Good listening and communication skill

• Objective and Patient

• Leadership and nurturing spirit

• Humility and sense of responsibility

Factors which affect success or failure of mentors

• Geographic proximity

• Frequency and type of information shared with the Entrepreneur

• Initiation of relationship by CEDA & the promoter

• Structure of interaction

• Ability to establish mentor-mentee friendship

Some useful tools for mentoring

The following tools are some of those which have proven to be very effective in our mentoring interventions:

• Personal judgment; observation what do you see, what is the condition of assets etc.

• Process audit; how business is carried out at the project, work delegation arrangement.

• Internal control system evaluation; are there proper financial records: receipt books, ledgers.

Full audit; more than a test of the financial controls.