Who's In Your Top Hive?: Your Guide To Finding Your Success Mentors

These days you need more than smarts to succeed. You need a network of never-let you-fail mentors who support your growth and help you achieve your dreams. It works! All successful people have mentors in their life who help them at various stages of their development. This book will show you the five steps to pull these people towards you, every time! You will learn the 5 pillars for navigating a successful and satisfying career. Every parent, counselor, and human resource department will want to give this to a young professional they care about.

Bert Gervais has written a wonderfully refreshing, actionable guide to help anyone who wants to effectively cultivate mentor relationships that will allow them to take their career, business, and most importantly, their LIFE to the next level. I can tell you that from my years of experience in Corporate America and serving on multiple nonprofit boards, I ve found the overwhelming majority of young professionals never learned the proper etiquette when it comes to cultivating effective mentor relationships. And the sad part is that they grow up to be experienced professionals who STILL don t know how to cultivate effective mentor relationships. It s no wonder that most people are struggling in the careers or are experiencing mediocre results. The author did a wonderful job of dispelling some of the myths that hold people back from cultivating mentor relationships in the first place, which is important. Some of the myths surrounding mentoring are astonishing but are rampant in the minds of today s young people. Next, Mr. Gervais gave wonderful examples of how you should apply his advice and WHY you should do it. The author also provides the reader with a template of an effective introductory email to a potential mentor and an in-person script that could break the ice which is ideal if you are one of those shy people and feel awkward in social settings. What I also enjoyed about this book is that the author talked about the importance of having soft skills, which include the ability to communicate, to be a go-giver, work within a team environment, and showing that you care about the people in your network or company. Those skills are critical for success because you have to stand out or be replaced by the competition or cheap labor/technology in our ever evolving business marketplace. I remember one time when someone sought me out for advice for his business and failed to show up for a scheduled phone call. He didn t even have the decency to notify me that he couldn t make our scheduled time and he never apologized for his no show And what was even more shocking about this is that the guy was not a recent college graduate. In fact, he s older than me and I m in my mid thirties! Now I realize that some of this is common sense but if it was common people would have more sense! The author also gave the reader a glimpse of his personal journey that I thought was inspiring and instructive too. He talks about how he was able to start from humble beginnings, overcome some of his own insecurities and his failures too. The reality is that successful people fail more than failures do. The difference is that they learn the lessons behind those failures, get back up from them, and move forward with more wisdom. I recommend that you get copies of this book for yourself and anyone else you care about so that together you can move forward in your lives with more wisdom and more fulfillment. After all, isn t that what we all want? Best of luck, John Hinds Author of the Amazon Best-Seller What s In Your Water?