Mentoring Meets Biomed Launch 13.3.14

Mentoring meets Biomedical LAUNCH Event

13 March 2014

Corporate Patron University Sponsors

Agenda


• Introduction Diane Cresswell Business Growth Hub and Bionow Mentoring meets Biomedical

• Mentoring and how it works Paul Tucker

• Mentor and Mentee - LIVE Case Study

• Questions and Next Steps Paul Tucker

• Networking & refreshments from 6.35pm All

Connecting people, creating opportunities

Connecting people

Creating opportunities

The Business Growth Hub - established in 2011 Mission to assist businesses across Greater Manchester to

realise their growth potential through

• A range of practical, expert services

• Unlocking finance

• Access to experienced business mentors

Links to specialist knowledge through • MAS (Manufacturing Advisory service)

• UK Trade & Investment

• Growth Accelerator

• Specialist partners including Bionow

a specialist business support and services company Delivering tangible value to the biomedical sector in the North of England

Members include:

biotech, pharmaceutical, healthcare and medical device companies and the specialist supply chain

Our service spans procurement, insurance, recruitment, training, specialist

events and access into a vibrant network of businesses, Universities and the NHS

Bionow’s corporate and university sponsors share our vision for long term growth

Together we will enable Bionow member organisations to be the most productive and competitive in the world


Mentoring meets Biomedical


Northern program

Southern program


How the program

works

Professional relationships


What is mentoring at a glance:

• A relationship

• Trust and mutual regard

• Achieve aspirations

• Realise potential

• Mutually beneficial


Famous Mentors • Business Sir Freddie Laker mentored Sir

Richard Branson

• Sport Pam Shriver mentored Venus Williams

• Politics Michelle Robson mentored Barack

Obama

• Music Bing Crosby mentored Frank Sinatra

• Classical Antiquity Socrates mentored Plato.


What does a mentor do?

• Teaches the mentee about a specific issue

• Encourage personal and professional growth

• Supports the mentee on a particular skill

• Shares resources and networks

• Challenges the mentees to move beyond their comfort zone

• Creates a safe learning environment to discuss taking risks

• Focuses on the mentee’s total development


Benefits for the mentee • Personalised development

• New skills and expertise

• Access to independent and objective perspectives

• Enhances confidence in dealing with challenges and issues

• Networking opportunities

• Setting and achieving goals

• Improved organisational awareness and insight

• Increase individual visibility and recognition internally and externally

• Helps to clarify and enhance career/business direction and

advancement

• Support during challenging periods


Benefits for the mentor • Personal Development – growing by growing others

• Increased Job satisfaction

• Honing of skills such as supporting others, listening, giving feedback,

and adapting your leadership style

• Development of self/business-knowledge and self/business-awareness

• Sharing of their networks and contacts

• Increased networking opportunities with other mentors and their

mentee’s

• Opportunity to look at own organisation/business

• Raise your visibility within your own organisation or business world at

large


Mentee Journey • Meet with a member of the team

• Diagnostic to understand the needs of the business

• Attend an Induction to support the mentoring relationship

• Matching process to be undertaken by the Business Growth Hub

• Meet with mentor

• Online portal to show meeting records

• Quarterly network meetings

• Relationship management conducted through the Business Growth

Hub

• Evaluation of the programme March 2015


My Experience as a Mentee

Dr. Mashi-ul Alam ImmunoSYS Ltd. UK

My Background • Academic, PhD in immunology, University of

Manchester

• Research in biological sciences

• Core competency – cellular and molecular systems,

biological experimentations

• Generally, researchers/scientists are very nervous

about the world outside the walls of the academia,

particularly finance and industry.

Nature of Business • Translation of biological sciences (knowledge)

• Application of cellular, molecular and immunologic

systems in industry and industry targetted research

• Consultancy in knowledge/technology transfer

• Target sectors – biopharma, agri-business

• Target regions - overseas

Chronology, 2012-2013

• Feb 2012 – formed company

• May 2012 – 1st trip to South Asia (Bangladesh) for

business development

• Jul 2012 – Introduced to Mentor (David McRobbie)

• Dec 2012 – 2nd trip to Bangladesh >> 3 MOUs signed

• Jan 2013 – MOU signed with Dutch company

• Mar 2013 – Parties came to Mcr, 3 contracts signed

• May 2013 – Initiation of 1st project (pharma company)

• Aug 2013 – 3rd trip to Bangladesh, 1 contract signed

with large agri company

• Sep 2013 – Initiation of 2nd project

Where has Mentoring helped? • Strategy

• Language, etiquettes, acumen

• Letters, documents, proposals

• Connections

• Drive, confidence, check-point, assessment

How do we work? • Phone, emails, Skype, meet

• Friends – more than just Mentor-Mentee

• Curious about each other’s

profession/world/network

• Presence at some meetings with clients/partners

• Continued social and advisory relationship post

mentoring period


My Experience as a Mentor

David McRobbie AS Technologies LLC


Next steps in the programme...

Paul Tucker Business Growth Hub


• Book on to the inductions!

• Tues 18th March Biomed Induction

2pm – 5pm, Daresbury

• Thurs 20th March Biomed Induction

3pm – 6pm, Manchester Science Park

• Thurs 25th March Biomed Induction

3pm – 6pm, Liverpool Science Park

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Contact us to find out more:

Phone: 0161 359 3050

Email: [email protected]

www.businessgrowthhub.com

@bizgrowthhub

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