This document describes a mentoring program for employees at CA Technologies. The program aims to improve collaboration, engagement, innovation and performance. It consists of quarterly themes, mentoring relationships, networking opportunities, and activities to develop leadership, technical skills, and thought leadership. Participants set goals, receive 360 feedback, and work on innovation challenges. The program is evaluated through reflections, surveys and goal tracking. It provides opportunities for professional and personal growth.
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CTE Mentoring Program
Communicate Ideas
Innovate Solutions
Socialize Success
Welcome
3. First Rule: Communicating Ideas
Your ability to communicate
ideas is directly affected by
the perception people have of
you and its resulting trust.
Perception is, therefore,
reality.
4. Second Rule: Innovating Solutions
Identifying
innovative
solutions is
the back
door to
building a
personal
community
of interest
around the
ideas you
have to be
valuable
You want
people to
see you as
uniquely
valuable
Focus on
Broad Skills
Focus on
Narrow
Skills
Remember – it’s the rare person who can ever accomplish
worthwhile challenges without a team.
5. Rule 3: Socialize Success
—Share your success
—Share the success of people around you
—Share what works (and what doesn’t)
—Ultimately innovation is a close looped process
− Ideas becomes innovations
− Innovations becomes successes
− Successes become the basis for new ideas
10. CTE Mentoring Program
Alignment with CA Corporate goals
Improve efficiency, employee
engagement, collaboration
and performance
Increase market awareness
Accelerate sales velocity
Improve product innovation
and quality
Increase customer loyalty
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Outcomes / Benefits
• Improved levels of collaboration across
organizational boundaries
• Improved employee engagement and
retention, both for direct membership
and though wider community
engagement
• Fostering a culture of deliberate
innovation, developing ideation and
innovation skills though Innovation Pods
• Developing the next generation of
technical and thought leaders through 1:1
Mentoring
12. CTE Mentoring Program 2014
Mentee Demographics
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MF
Customer Success
Intl. Growth Mkts
EP Sales HQ
CA TS WW HQ
Corporate TSO
WW Sales
Security CSU
APM CSU
ITBM CSU
CDO
CTO
ITKO CSU
48%
17%
9%
19%
7%
NA
EMEA
APJ
ITC
SA
32%
68%
Female
Male
13. Where are we on our journey together?
January-March
Leadership and You
July-September
Business Strategy
October-December
Future of Work and Technology
April-June
Technical / Thought Leadership
and Innovation
20. Idea Network
Building a Personal Community
— During the next 6 months you should be filling
our the form to the right (or a similar form)
— Identify the people in your network that you
can leverage now
— Identify the people in your network that you
need to be successful in your goals, in the
Innovation Pod, in your career, or your life
— Ask you mentor for help in identify what kinds
of people might be helpful to achieve results
— Identify the ways in which you can be naturally
introduced to new people
— What can you do to get their attention?
22. Innovation Pod
Developing a Mentee Network of Influence
• Concept
• 4-6 people and get together to incubate ideas and to innovate!
• Ideal combination would be 2 technical, 1-2 mentors and 1-2 field people
• Pods would be autonomous and meet weekly or bi-weekly as appropriate
• Pods should encourage diversity (avoid duplicate roles, etc…)
• Each Pod should have one member knowledgeable about Patents - Reach
out to the Patent Mentor program if you need a contact
• Deliverable
• Each POD will be encouraged to formalize their discussions and ideas into
one or more Invention Disclosures (a submitted IDF)
• Extra credit will be given to groups that go on to prototype their idea!
• Benefits
• Directly contribute to CA’s IP and deliver value back to the business
• Opportunity to practice the innovation skills we learnt about in Theme 2
• Great fun way to share professional interests and get to know each other
• Expand the professional network amongst mentors and mentees
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23. — Mentees will be invited to demonstrate thought leadership throughout
program
— Examples include (but are not limited to)
− A CTE Mentor Program Blog entry
− An IDF
− An IdeaWall entry
− An IdeaTree entry
− Contributing to a Techscan2 topic
− A submission on the Author Program
− A group mini-project approved by and presented to the CTE
− Engaging in discussions on our Chatter group ‘The Reef’
− Etc
— We will reinforce the notion that ‘great ideas are not enough’ – you
must develop the skills to communicate your vision and to inspire
others through influence without coercion!
Demonstrating Thought Leadership
practice…practice…practice
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25. Program Expectations: - "Growing professionally and personally" is the summary
that I read in many feedback quotes of former participants.
A perfect goal to motivate any employee to work twice as
hard and to live twice as happily.
- Networking with brilliant coworkers that are not directly
connected to my product line will open new perspectives
and horizons.
- This program sounds like a very rewarding opportunity
to broaden my understanding of the overall vision of CA
in regards to its technical and business roadmap.
Why should you be selected?: - I love to learn and to study. The motivation that I will gain
from all the new impulses of the CTE mentor program will
benefit myself and thanks to my "public" role as a xxx
all of the xxx team members.
…because the box should always be more
interesting than what’s inside!
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26. “…I have absolutely LOVED being a part of this! I wish I could continue
participating in this again after this year as I have grown tremendously
and can only hope and aspire to give as much back to CA as I have
been given! THANK YOU!!! I am extremely honored to be part of this
program!”
“It really is what you make of it. I unfortunately, did not try to make the
most of it.”
Everyone starts the program with the same opportunity
…which path will you take from here?
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