OUR RESTART IDENTITY

  • We are a strong, international team of specialists and experts who use innovative tools prepared specially to help businesses come out of crisis.
  • We are here for you – the business owner – to guide you through change, to help you in an atmosphere of trust and commitment, to give you hope, and to work with you to create new opportunities for future growth.

OUR MISSION

  • To save companies in crisis in the Baltic Sea Region, with respect and empathy
  • To give value to society
  • To motivate business owners towards a better future

OUR VALUES

Since the beginning, RESTART has developed clear and fundamental values.

  1. TRUST

For entrepreneurs (mentees) taking advantage of our support, this means:

  • We keep all information confidential
  • We share the same values
  • We do everything to maintain a high level of competence
  • We talk honestly about problems without making judgements
  • We keep promises

         For the RESTART support network (mentors), this means that they:

  • Care about data confidentiality
  • Care for the quality of their work (competences and skills)
  • Give the mentee time and attention
  • Demonstrate common values in their behaviors
  • Meet set deadlines
  • Keep promises
  • Respect feedback
  • Remain impartial
  1. EMPATHY

For entrepreneurs (mentees) taking advantage of our support, this means:

  • Openness to accept help
  • Good attitude
  • Respect
  • Trust in a process
  • Demonstrating empathy to understand others’ emotions and needs, to involve their employees in the process of change

    For the RESTART support network (mentors), this means that they:

  • Listen actively
  • Use psychological tools and knowledge
  • Use constructive criticism
  • Understand and respect others’ emotions and needs
  • Establish common ground
  1. COMMUNITY

For entrepreneurs (mentees) taking advantage of our support, this means:

  • Solidarity between losers and winners
  • Sharing the best lessons and practices
  • Networking and exchange of experiences

    For the RESTART support network (mentors), this means:

  • Access to expertise
  • A brotherhood of Business Angels
  • Internal mentoring – “Mentor to Mentor”
  • Providing and sharing information, knowledge and contacts
  1. EMPOWERMENT

For entrepreneurs (mentees) taking advantage of our support, this means:

  • Regain of self-confidence and self-esteem
  • Regain of control over the business
  • Use of support and resources
  • Taking responsibility for the process
  • Acknowledgement of their past successes
  • Awareness of their skills and knowledge and other resources

     For the RESTART support network (mentors), this means that they:

  • Retain a supportive role
  • Provide knowledge and skills
  • Ask good questions
  • See potential and resources that are invisible to the mentee
  • Don’t offer ready-made solutions
  1. OPENNESS TO CHANGE

    For entrepreneurs (mentees) taking advantage of our support, this means:

  • An open mindset
  • Readiness to think “outside the box”
  • Accepting potential risks
  • Time investment

           For the RESTART support network (mentors), this means that they:

  • Show opportunities
  • Work with innovations
  • Use various tools to stimulate creativity
  • Predict risks and gains
  • Use approach adequate to the mentee readiness for changes

 

  1. CREATIVITY

For entrepreneurs (mentees) taking advantage of our support, this means:

 

  • New business ideas and solutions
  • A changed way of working
  • New use of resources
  • Reformulating challenges into possibilities
  • Taking part in brainstorms and creative work

           For the RESTART support network (mentors), this means that they:

  • Have practical knowledge of design thinking methodology
  • Trust in the process
  • Are driven by challenges
  • Are self-motivated
  • Actively seek inspiration