What Makes a Good Mentoring Program?

Courtesy – inspirar

There’s a lot to consider for a mentoring program including the participants and matching among others. But running and arranging a successful program shouldn’t be difficult. The program should be sustainable, engaging, effective, and simple. Let’s dig deep into it.

Sustainable

The sustainability factor helps make sure that the program can work for years. A business mentoring program improves and evolves over time as you keep running it. Eventually, it becomes the business culture and lets you harvest the most advantages.

Simple

The mentoring program shouldn’t be convoluted or complicated. Remember that even a single extra thing that you add to the program will add a complexity layer to it. In return, this makes the program less enjoyable for participants and yourself.

Effective

Consider two essential things for offering structure to the sessions.

• Goals: Mentees should think about what goals they desire to achieve from mentoring. The thing they should do is finish discussing it with their mentors. And once you discuss with your mentor, your goals will generally evolve during the journey into meaningful ones.
• Reflections: Before every meeting, mentees should reflect on what they achieved in their last meeting. Mentees should write it and let their mentors read it one day prior to the next meeting. It helps the mentor to get an idea of what the mentee has been doing and make sure that they are on the right track.

In short, quality mentorship programs must be sustainable, simple, and effective. With all this included, a program becomes as effective as necessary to achieve the desired goals.

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