Making Mentoring Work
While the concept of formal mentoring is not new, the ways in which smart companies conceptualize, track, and leverage these relationships is constantly evolving. Research shows that diverse groups have reduced access to mentors when compared to their colleagues and that most organizations are not taking full advantage of mentoring for career development or taking adequate steps to ensure strategic metrics and accountability measures are in place.
Making Mentoring Work offers insights gathered from years of Catalyst work and expertise in this area to help organizations maximize their mentoring efforts. It includes information on building robust formal mentoring programs from the ground up as well as on ways to leverage existing formal mentoring programs. It also offers questions to guide organizational thinking around formal mentoring efforts.
Report highlights include:
- A brief research overview demonstrating the importance of formal mentoring, mentoring relationships, and how they are best maximized.
- Insights on formal mentoring for career development, designing effective accountability mechanisms, and robust ways to measure and track formal mentoring, including return on investment (ROI).
- Self-assessments that allow organizations to gauge the effectiveness of their formal mentoring programs and provide further guidance to them in their mentoring efforts.
- In-depth Diversity & Inclusion practices showcasing innovative mentoring programs.
Sponsor: Nationwide
