Developing Employee Mentoring Programs

March 28, 2012 - PRLog -- Reduction-in-force, restructuring, reorganization and early retirement programs are creating a critical void in experienced and seasoned workers.  

Formal mentoring programs offer employers an opportunity to strategically customize employee careers within the organization in ways that are mutually beneficial to the organization and employees. Mentor/Protégé partnerships offer a cost effective approach to growing and grooming a workforce ready to meet the present and future needs of the organization.  Organizations providing formal mentoring programs report major benefits such as: higher workforce retention levels; lower recruitment costs; improved ability to identify leadership potential; improved succession planning processes and the ability to respond to changes in the workforce (turnover, retirements, downsizing); improved employee orientation; better promotion decisions, higher levels of cross training and more successful implementation of diversity initiatives.  

WHO BENEFITS?.........EVERYONE!!  

For the PROTÉGÉ:

Improved performance
Career guidance assistance
More realistic career goals, strategies and options
Special leadership training
Networking opportunities
Increased visibility
Greater understanding of the organization, its culture and values
Access to a role model
Opportunities to participate in challenging developmental assignments
Encouraged growth beyond usual expectations

For the MENTOR:

New perspectives
Sharpened leadership and interpersonal skills
Expanded business contacts
Greater appreciation of workforce perspectives
Personal satisfaction helping protégé
“Docemur Doscendo”:  he who teaches, learns

For the ORGANIZATION:

Highly skilled and professional workforce
Enhanced leadership potential
Retention of “corporate memory”
Improved transfer of knowledge and skills
Tool for recruitment and succession planning
Improved flow or organizational information and sharing

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