The document discusses how organizations can use mentoring at different employee stages and career levels. It recommends mentoring for employee career development, leadership development, reverse mentoring, and knowledge transfer. Mentoring promotes employee engagement, learning, and retention while decreasing turnover. The document suggests organizations consider a mentoring software solution if they have many participants, want to automate matching and tasks, require metrics reporting, or need to scale their mentoring program.

1. HOW TO USE MENTORING
IN YOUR WORKPLACE

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