Personal skills are the focus of Mowgli's new entrepreneur mentorship program

Entrepreneurs are often advised to choose their partners carefully, as they may end up spending even more time with them than they do with friends and family. Mentors, perhaps, should be chosen even more carefully. Now Forsa, a new initiative from the UK-based Mowgli Foundation (supported by the G8), will make that process easier for entrepreneurs across the Arab world.

Forsa, which means ‘chance’ in Arabic, is a mentorship program that directly connects entrepreneurs in the Arab world with mentors to help them develop the human side of their projects.

Currently operating in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya, Jordan, and Yemen, the initiative has several nontraditional aspects, unusual to an entrepreneur mentorship program. First, the program focuses on the entrepreneur, rather than the project. Forsa’s mentors focus on an entrepreneur’s time management, the balance between personal and professional responsibilities, leadership skills, and problem solving so as to help improve their business.

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Personal skills are the focus of Mowgli’s new entrepreneur mentorship program