Mentoring Programme

Background

Given the realities and challenges of today’s global workforce, organizations need to invest in growing their talent, preparing future leaders, creating and sustaining a culture of high performance, and encouraging continual learning and sharing.

The missing link between a promising and successful employee is having access to mentoring in a relationship that challenges and supports growth.

Developing mentors within your organization creates a learning environment and fosters a culture of growth and success. This process supports new, aspiring, and talented junior to middle management employees on their development journeys and integration into their new executive positions. Mentors share their corporate knowledge, wisdom, and experience to help develop mentees recognized as having growth potential, thereby paving the way for a brighter future for your organization.

A structured mentoring approach assists with integrating your company culture, developing a shared language, creating networks, and ‘learning the ropes.’ Mentoring programs assist in building capacity within organizations to develop leaders, retain talent, improve performance, and change culture, thereby building a pipeline for future leadership within the organization.

However, mentoring is not simply a process of having interesting conversations. Mentors need to acquire specific skills to ensure that mentoring objectives are determined and achieved and that knowledge is put into practice. A mentoring program trains mentors in those skills so that the company can create a mentoring network.

Our team is dedicated to designing, facilitating, and implementing mentoring programs, providing unwavering support and guidance to organizations throughout the entire process. With our expertise, you can be confident in the successful implementation and outcomes of your mentoring program.

Our mentoring methodology and approach

• Results-oriented;
• Based on the neuroscience of learning;
• Ideal for use with intelligent and busy people;
• Facilitates change through highly productive conversations;
• Unlocks insight in minutes;
• Supports clear goal; achievement
• Designed to increase learning and performance significantly;
• Provides a structured framework for sustainability and success.

Mentoring Process

The mentoring process runs over a period of time, with preparation before the training and input during and after the training.

1. Initial selection process
   Company champions are selected as mentors, undergoing a selection process before joining, which could include personality assessment, EQ assessment, recommendation by manager, or pre-training interview.
2. Program briefing
   The initial meeting will introduce the program outline, expectations, commitment required, and objectives.
3. Training program
   Two-day mentor training program using a brain-based learning approach.
4. Mentor profiles
   Create mentor profiles for the mentor database.
5. Mentee selection
   The mentee is selected based on the potential for growth in your organization in consultation with your manager and/or HR business partner.
6. Matching process
   Mentee and mentor are matched carefully to ensure a successful relationship.
7. Beginning mentoring relationship
8. Supervision
   Ongoing supervision process – individual and/or group.
9. Evaluation and feedback

Programme includes 6 training modules:

• Importance and value of mentoring;
• Definition of mentoring and role of mentor;
• The neuroscience approach;
• Conversational models;
• Mentoring Process;
• Putting it all together.

We provide support at any required level of detail, from running the entire process for you to guiding you through managing it in-house.