Support employees’ career and personal development with a customized mentoring program.
Different groups of employees have different mentoring needs, making a universal approach to mentoring ineffective.
Traditional mentoring in the workplace can be a resource intensive process, and often there are more employees looking to be mentored than mentors available.
All too often employee mentoring programs are inaccurately implemented as a solution to a problem. It is important to remember that an employee mentoring program is simply another learning method that must be applied and customized to the audience at the appropriate time to be impactful.
Impact & Result
Prior to establishing an employee mentoring program, take the time to ensure that a mentoring program is the right learning method.
Identify high-priority employee segments, and create a custom mentoring program plan tailored to their needs.
Create the appropriate resources and training to ensure that mentors and mentees are set up for success.
Evaluate and continuously improve the mentoring program to ensure it drives impact in the organization.
Research & Tools
1. Frame the mentoring program
Determine
if mentoring is appropriate, then devise mentoring goals and key metrics.