Mentorship programs have four key components: participants, style, format, and purpose. Participants can be mentors or mentees with static or shifting roles. Programs can be informal with participant-defined relationships or formal with structured elements defined by facilitators. Common formats are 1-to-1, 1-to-many, or many-to-many depending on goals and available mentors/mentees. The purpose and goals of the program should guide its design.

2. At a basic level, four components combine to define
any mentorship program. It’s important to build a
program that fits your organization.
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12. Participants are either mentors or mentees.
Roles may static or shifting. Executives, supervisors,
peers, employees and interns are all examples of
potential participants.
PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS

13. Programs can be informal and unstructured where
participants define the the scope of the relationship.
Program can also be formal where relationships,
context, content, time frame and goals are defined by
program facilitators.
STYLE

14. Deep relationships between participants Great when mentees outweigh mentors Expose participants to a variety of views
1-to-1
FORMAT
1-to-MANY MANY-to-MANY
Your program format should take into consideration the
number of potential mentors, mentees and program goals.

15. PURPOSE

16. PURPOSE

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