A good mentoring program in the workplace proved to be a powerful development tool for both employees and the company. That’s the reason why big companies use professional Mentoring tools to keep their staff happy and motivated, so that they enjoy what they do.
Developing a mentoring program in workplace can be a difficult thing if it is done without any focused strategy. To develop an effective Mentoring strategy it is important to setup a team who will run this program or use a Mentoring tools that will help you to track you program progress.
5 tips to develop a successful mentoring program
All workplace have a different mentoring program because every workplace is different. But we have picked 5 major points which is illustrate us how to develop a mentoring program in workplace:
1. What is your mentoring program objectives.
This is one of the main point which you always find in every mentoring program irrespective of workplace size. Setting you mentoring program goals right is always important. You should know what you want from this mentoring program. Identify high potential employees, Increase in workplace productivity, knowledge transfer between senior and junior or work life balance.
2. Choose Mentors for this program
Once you are done with objective then start looking for Great Mentors who will successfully run this program. Because great mentors means good mentees. Every mentor should have these 4 qualities
- Born Leader
- Speaker who can motivate listeners
- Patient and full of enthusiasm
- Believe in Knowledge sharing.
3. Announce the Program in the workplace
Mentoring program in the workplace aren’t that ease to implement. People needs to be know about it so that they can engage with it more effectively. Because people hesitate to engage with others.
Because everybody is not aware of mentorship, they sometimes don’t feel comfortable with the mentor if both of them don’t share the good bond.
So it is important that you should explain the benefits of mentoring program for both Mentors and mentees. The more they understand about the Mentorship program will increase the success rate.
4. Be careful which setting up Matches
Setting up a match of Mentor and Mentee is one of the difficult task in any mentoring Program. Random match sometimes put you in a difficult situation. For Example, If you randomly match 2 people who don’t like each other, if anything goes wrong you will end ups doing damage control.
Here the few things you should keep in mind while making matches
- They share similar interests and hobbies
- Have same kind of personality
- From Same domain will help them to share good amount of knowledge
- And Most important they don’t hate each other.
5. Set up a Progress tracking system
The last and the most important thing is to track the progress of the mentoring program. Because if don’t have stats or data you never know what goes wrong and what goes right. You can use multiple ways to track the progress of Mentoring program in the workplace.
- Use Mentoring platforms: There are tons of mentoring tools are available in the market which you can use to track the program impact.
- Feedback Forms: Use feedback from to get the thought of both Mentor or Mentee regarding the program.
- Setup an after Program Meeting: You can setup and after program meeting with mentors and mentees to know how they feel about this program and how much effective it is.
Conclusion: So I hope the above 5 tips help you to know how to develop a mentoring program in workplace. If you thing I missed any please write in the comment section and I will add that in the list.
