Mentoring programs involve matching talented, experienced employees (mentors) with promising, less experienced employees (mentorees). Over time, working one-on-one, the mentor and mentoree—and the organization—reap real rewards, including the following:

• Enhancing strategic business initiatives
• Encouraging retention
• Reducing turnover costs
• Improving productivity
• Breaking down the "silo" mentality that hinders cooperation among company departments or divisions
• Elevating knowledge transfer from just getting information to retaining the practical experience and wisdom gained from long-term employees
• Enhancing professional development
• Linking employees with valuable knowledge and information to other employees in need of such information
• Using your own employees, instead of outside consultants, as internal experts for professional development

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Competition for highly skilled employees is becoming a greater challenge. Prospective employees conduct more sophisticated job searches and are likely to ask more critical questions to assess what they will gain both short-term and long-term in working for your company. Offering a planned approach to their career development, such as a corporate mentoring program, has become a "must-have" for organizations that want to attract talent.

Mentoring has a powerful attraction for prospective employees. In career development surveys, mentoring continues to be cited as an important strategy. When marketing to prospective employees, advertising that you have a professional and effective mentoring program can be a significant differentiator between you and your competitors.

With Management Mentors' mentoring programs and mentoring certification, you can demonstrate your commitment to developing your employees by advertising that yours is a certified professional mentoring program unlike others in the marketplace. This credential provides credibility and states that you stand above others in your commitment to providing opportunities for growth within your company.

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The Mentoring Program Manager (MPM) is a critical player in a professional mentoring program. An effective mentoring program manager can often make the difference between a failed mentoring relationship and a successful one.

If you're looking at establishing a mentoring initiative, it’s important for you to have the support of your immediate manager in understanding your roles and responsibilities in managing a corporate mentoring program. If you are an existing MPM, we offer various tools and solutions to enhance your effectiveness and the success of your corporate mentoring program.

Specifically, we offer the following:

• Mentoring certification
• Online mentoring training
• Mentoring consulting services
• Resources, such as mentoring articles, thought papers, newsletters, and podcasts

Contact us today to set up a complimentary consultation so that we can discuss with you some new ways to enhance the productivity of your Mentoring Program Manager.

There are many organizations that have offices all over the globe.  While this has been a common practice for years, a handful of these organizations have discovered the challenges in incorporating a mentoring program that extends to their global offices.  For that reason they have chosen to exclude their global employees from participating in a corporate mentoring program.  In turn, this decision has been found to affect the organization by reducing the opportunity to develop some of their employees to their full potential.  By proving a global mentoring program, it will not only help you develop your employees, but it will also help your organization with leadership development, as well as talent retention.  Our corporate mentoring software, MentoringComplete, can assist you in bringing together ALL of your employees under one roof.  Whether you are planning on providing one unified mentoring program to all of your employees, or several different mentoring programs throughout your organization, MentoringCompletecan handle all of them in a very simplistic approach.  To find out how we can make it simple for you to achieve your global mentoring initiatives, click here to contact us and we will give you a personalized demo of how MentoringCompletewill complement your current program.  At the same time, we will offer you a complementary consultation to discuss your needs and offer you suggestions on how to enhance your mentoring initiatives.  If you do not have a program, but are thinking of starting one, we can also guide you in the right direction.  We hope to hear from you soon!  

Many organizations are finding themselves in a delicate position because they feel that they do not have enough qualified candidates working for them and are not sure what to do.  They do not see enough leaders sitting at their fingertips and are starting to panic.  Some of these same companies are experiencing very large turnover rates, thus increasing their expenses.  Instead of tossing away thousands of dollars on turnover employees, the best solution is to invest those monies into a solid mentoring program.  A formal mentoring program is a great investment.  There are many different types of programs to choose from.  All you need to do is speak to a mentoring expert and have them help you design a program that will be tailored to your needs.  After you implement it, the next few steps are quite simple.  The first step is to take the time to get to know your employees.  The next step would be to select the employees you feel that have the potential to excel.  Lastly, embrace those high potential employees and help them develop into becoming your future leaders by having them participate in the mentoring program.  Providing tools and resources to educate your employees on leadership and management skills should help reduce your turnover rate.  Besides, if employees see advancement opportunities and formal programs for career progression, your organization will be demonstrating that you care about their future.  Significant advances in technology has paved the way to facilitate the mentoring process, so give us a call today to learn how we can help you develop your leaders of tomorrow.