2. MENTORING AND THE EMPLOYEE LIFECYCLE
Mentoring at all employee stages contributes to:
New hire productivity and retention
Employee career development
Leadership chain development
Diversity and inclusion initiatives
Knowledge transfer among generations
Mentoring promotes employee engagement and
ultimately, retention
3. ACHIEVE THIS IN YOUR WORKPLACE!
Consider mentoring for the following uses in your
organization:
4. EMPLOYEE CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Encourage a learning culture
through mentoring to ensure:
Employees actively spread knowledge
and best practices throughout the org
Development of individual
competencies
Development of a personal network of
resources
Cementing of corporate values and
culture
Helping employees develop their
careers increases engagement and
productivity while decreasing
retention rates.
5. LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Mentoring engages and develops
your high potentials by
Exposing them to different
areas of your business
Developing leadership skills
Learning what is expected in
future roles
With mentoring, hi-pos learn
faster and can take on
leadership positions sooner
6. REVERSE MENTORING
Senior employees learn new
technologies and trends
from younger workers to:
Increase multi-generational
understanding and engagement
Transfer skills
Reverse mentoring is a
two-way street benefitting
all participants
7. KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER
Every org has vital in-house
knowledge and skills. Mentoring
ensures:
Skills are passed on
Employees have direct
access to the keepers of
this important knowledge
Personal, informal learning
that’s more engaging than
training manuals, intranets,
and LMS systems
8. MAKE IT EASY WITH SOFTWARE
Consider software if you:
Have more than 50
participants
Want to reduce your time and
cost by automating matching
and routine tasks
Want to get started fast with
proven guided mentoring
workflows
out of the box
Need to report true business impact
metrics to your leadership
Want to scale your program to more participants or
locations