By Derek Morgan
The Secret to Duplicating Your Best Performers. 1. Make mentoring easy To Do 2. Make it easy To Do consistently 3. Have visible accountability without having to do more reporting 4. Create systems to capture and scale IP At the end of this article we will point you in the direction of a simple, yet powerful application that can help you successfully deliver and scale mentoring for your business or clients. First, let’s look at some of the challenges and opportunities. There is one thing you can guarantee any organization and that is their best people are leaving sooner or later, for one reason or another. One of the biggest missed opportunities within many organizations is how to effectively capture and scale the intellectual property and experience that resides within their best people. www.coachinglife. com.au
Whilst informal training, or mentoring is widely accepted as a powerful and highly leveraged way of training people.
For example, one business we are working with who is a big advocate of mentoring, runs an international organization with thousands of staff.
The unfortunate reality is that many organizations do not maximize the potential of the talent that exists within their business.
They have a structured mentoring program that covers 3 levels of executive and management for over 5,000 employees.
Even within large companies with focused HR teams and dedicated mentoring programs, the best of intentions can quickly lose momentum if you cannot effectively get your staff to execute on the mentoring program consistently and the results are not measurable.
Despite having a structured program and a manual on what mentoring is and how it needs to be delivered. There was no way for the organization to track the progress and success of the mentoring program and ongoing relationships between Mentor and Mentee. To set an organization up to succeed with informal training or mentoring we need to look a little deeper at the secrets to mentoring success.
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