Executive mentoring

When thinking aloud meets someone who knows what is at stake, what matters becomes visible.

NOVIDARO’s mentoring works with high-potential talent, professionals moving into management and executives expanding their scope. The goal isn't to hand you a one-off answer. It's to forge the framework and precision that will bulletproof your future decisions.

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The NOVIDARO name

The name
novusThe new
videreto see · to perceive
-aroending
NOVIDARODiscover more about novidaro

You can't course-correct what you can't see.

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The moment

When what brought you this far stops being enough.

Of the many moments in a career, NOVIDARO concentrates its mentoring on three. The first is the high-potential professional in the early years of a career, when the habits and the reading of the environment that shape the trajectory are still forming. The second is the professional who takes on a first team and has to start producing through others rather than alone. And the third is the executive stepping into a global or matrix scope, where organizational politics weighs as much as delivery.

At these inflection points, you need a true sounding board. Someone senior, immune to office politics, to help you read the room and rank your priorities. Someone to give you back the clarity to make the right call.

That is the work of the executive mentoring NOVIDARO offers: not to give ready-made answers, but to accelerate perception. To see what is not yet clear, and to act on it.

Every trajectory asks for a reading of its own.

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Individual mentoring · Who it's for

Three moments, three inflection points.

What changes from one moment to the next are the risks, not the formula. In all three, what decides is not only technical repertoire: it is the reading of the environment and the resilience to sustain what you decided. In all three, it is worth having beside you someone senior and outside the internal game, who sharpens your judgment and gives weight to your decisions. The mentoring adjusts to each case.

IHigh-potential talent
The first years of a corporate career: forming the habits, the repertoire and the reading of the environment that shape the trajectory.
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IIProfessionals moving into management
The first team under your responsibility: moving beyond individual delivery and learning to produce through others.
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IIIExecutives expanding their scope
New complexity: influence without direct authority, organizational politics and decisions in an ambiguous environment.
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And the reading asks for a method of its own.

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The method · OPERA

Five stages, one axis: the individual.

The five stages of the OPERA Method, anchored by the three symbols that bring them to life.

Malha ortogonal do Graticolato Romano, com um quadrado marcado em azul lápis
A gridThe Roman Graticolato, the grid that brought order to the land northeast of Padua, with Borgoricco at its center. Like it, the mentoring starts by drawing the map of your environment before pointing to a direction.
01 · 02Observe · Probe
Volume encadernado em couro, de formato pequeno e em pé, com nervuras e douração na lombada, onde se lê VIRGILIUS ALDI
The portable bookA publisher in Venice took text out of large volumes and put it in the hands of those who needed it away from the library. Knowledge, like repertoire, is most valuable when it's with you the moment the decision appears.
03Exemplify
A letterThe exact shape of what the mentoring pursues: the stem at a new level, standing on its own once the cycle ends.
04 · 05Realign · Anchor

Two of the three figures are historical and exist outside this site. The origin of each one is documented, with sources, on the method page.

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Mentoring outcomes

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Testimonials
Context[ Mentee's context: the career moment and the specific challenge that brought them to mentoring ]
Outcome[ Observable outcome at the end of the cycle, in the mentee's own words, two to three lines of italic quotation ]
Young talent at the start of a career, consumer goods sector
Context[ Context: a first management position recently taken on, and the challenge of leading former peers ]
Outcome[ Outcome of the cycle in the mentee's words, covering what changed in practice and in positioning, two lines ]
Professional moving into management, industrial sector
Context[ Context: global scope taken on, with distributed teams and a new reporting matrix ]
Outcome[ Observable outcome at the end of the cycle, in the mentee's words, about two and a half lines of running text ]
Executive in a global scope, technology sector

International associations

International associations
Selo de membro da EMCC Global, que declara adesão ao Global Code of Ethics

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International Mentoring and Coaching Council, co-founded by David Clutterbuck. Co-author, with the Association for Coaching, of the global code of ethics that guides this practice.

Selo de membro da International Mentoring Association

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International Mentoring Association (IMA) based in the United States. Signatory of the same global code of ethics that guides the practice since 2018.

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The next step

Start at the front door: individual mentoring.

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