Mentoring
Mentoring programs within your organization will build your people’s capability, increase job satisfaction, improve productivity through increased motivation, and improve retention. Mentoring programs can assist your senior staff to pass on critical organizational knowledge and capabilities. This can enable you to retain important intellectual capital, keep the motivation of older experienced worker and retain new developing employees. In doing this, mentoring programs help create sustainability and business success.
- Mentoring programs enable experienced and skillful people to develop their ability to help less experienced people set important life and career goals and develop the skills to reach them.
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Skillful mentors provide coaching, listening, and advice, and act as a sounding board for ideas and reactions. In a formal program, the mentor agrees to do this within an ongoing planned partnership that focuses on helping the partner reach specific goals over a designated period.
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Activities can include: talking together about the partner's past experiences, goals, plans, and skills; career paths and strategies, attending events together, working together; role-playing situations faced by the partner; exchanging and discussing written materials; co-authoring publications; interacting with other people for relationship building/networking purposes.
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Mentoring is a partnership with both parties committed to ensuring its success. The partner takes the lead role in ensuring that the structure of the relationship and activities meet their learning and career goals. They do, in a real sense, manage the relationship while remaining mindful of the mentor’s time and respectful of their experience and advice.
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Developing the capability and commitment of the workforce: developing skills, enlarging experience, encouraging engagement and retaining talented people.
We will help you to:
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Assess the culture and strategic requirements of your company in relation to readiness and goals relating to mentoring.
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Work with you to determine your mentoring strategy and goals.
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Design a mentoring program that fits your current and long term business needs. This can include formal, informal or a mixture of both types.
- Develop and deliver training for mentors and mentees to prepare them to learn the skills needed to coach and develop employee performance. This includes how to set expectations, monitor performance and train employees in job-related skills.
- Develop tools and training to manage the program including mentoring agreements, mentoring guidebook, interim check-ins, and regular lunch and learns.
- Determine how you will evaluate the success of the program and assist in implementing evaluation activities.