Developing a Corporate Mentoring Programme

AN OVERVIEW

1) Vision
Definition of organisational goals for mentoring. How will mentoring fit into your long term business strategy ? What opportunities/threats can mentoring address?

2) Where Are We Now?
What is it that is not happening in your organisation that mentoring may provide the solution ? What culture already exists for mentoring to flourish?

3) How Are We Going to Get There?
Develop a mentoring plan including:

• Selection of sponsors and their accountabilities.
• Selection and training of mentors and protegees.
• Definition of the key groups of protegees.
• The monitoring of progress in the mentor-protegee relationship.
• The reporting of issues in m-r relationship.

4) How The Whole Pogramme is Evaluated
Definition of outcomes and how they are measured.

Garth Spiers Associates was established in 1975 to focus on the human side of change, we have acted as mentors, trainers and consultants to innumerable people and organisations both commercial and humanitarian.

We believe that organisations prosper as they increase the value they place on their people and act upon it. Mentoring is one key element to bring this about.