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Designing and Deploying a Mentoring Program:
Full-day Workshop for HR Professionals and Senior Business Leaders

Seminar # 67703

Overview

Organizational performance depends on the ability of employees to learn and execute. Unfortunately, traditional training programs alone are often not adequate to meet the need for deep learning and skillful execution. Much of the skills and insights that an organization needs already reside within the minds of some employees. Mentoring is a process to transfer knowledge from those who know to those who need to know. Many organizations are discovering that they can dramatically improve performance and results when they formalize mentoring relationships in a company-sponsored program.

Product Description

AMA’s Mentoring Solution—and this workshop in particular—gives decision makers the tools they need to plan and execute formal mentoring programs across an enterprise. It also includes a needs analysis prior to the initial program and two days of follow-up assistance by an AMA faculty member as the client plans the program.

Who Should Attend

The audience for this one-day foundational workshop includes human resource professionals and senior executives who are responsible for organizational performance and want to launch a mentoring program in their organization.

Benefits

By the end of the workshop, participants will gain the tools to:

• Enhance organizational performance with a more knowledgeable, skilled workforce
• Increase capacity for accelerated learning and development in a changing environment
• Improve employee morale, job satisfaction and retention
• Gain a broader and deeper organizational commitment and trust from employees
• Achieve dispersed and faster leadership development by supporting organizational succession planning and skills development

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

• Assess the organization’s readiness for implementing a formal mentoring program, understanding the implications (opportunities, risks, obligations and requisite resource commitments) of instituting such a program
• Craft a plan for deploying a mentoring program, complete with systems for recruiting, evaluating, and appropriately matching mentors and mentoring clients, as well as monitoring their progress and satisfaction with the program
• Manage a formal mentoring program, including administrative planning and execution, program promotion and evaluation, and effectively handling foreseeable problems such as mentor shortages, poor fits between mentoring pairs, program drop outs, and other such common challenges

Instructional Methods

Overview is delivered in a lecture format, but attendees immediately plunge into a series of group activities including small group discussions, case study, debriefs, and finally, next steps and commitments.

Outline

Overview of Mentoring

• Define what mentoring is in a formal mentoring program
• Explore the potential purposes of a formal mentoring program
• Provide an honest assessment of both the potential benefits and pitfalls to establishing a formal mentoring program

Designing, Developing and Executing a Mentoring Program Plan

• What are the goals of the program?
• How does the program fit with the organization’s strategy and other development efforts?
• Who should be eligible to participate in the program?
• How will mentors and mentoring clients be selected and paired?
• How should the program be structured, administered and promoted?
• What are the resource implications for undertaking a mentoring program?
• Is the program worth the requisite investment of time and effort?

Sustaining Your Mentoring Program

• Describe the four stages of a relationship between mentoring partners
• Decide the level of organizational support to provide to mentoring relationships
• Encourage the progress of mentoring relationships
• Intervene when relationships take a wayward turn
• Integrate the mentoring program into the ongoing organizational culture

Contact an AMA training specialist to learn how to bring these workshops on-site to your organization. Call today at 1-877-566-9441.