pitching career mentoring to your leadership
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Starting a mentoring initiative at your organization is exciting. You’ve researched the options for program format and you’ve put together a solid plan for your company. Perhaps you’ve even put together a return-on-investment (ROI) analysis. However, there’s always that critical element in the final stage of the process before committing to launch—pitching career mentoring to your leadership and securing their approval.TRANSCRIPT
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Pitching Career Mentoring to Your Leadership
Tips for Success
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Presenting Your Program Can Be Complicated
That’s why we’re here to walk you through the questions your senior management may ask you. Read on for tips on pitching
career mentoring to your leadership and make it easier for you to secure approval.
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What exactly does a mentoring program look like?
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Questions From Leadership
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Demonstrate that mentoring is a smart way to harness your internal resources for cost-effective learning, engagement,
and retention. We suggest creating a project outline of the program, complete
with goals, strategies, workflows, and planned metrics. Do what you can to tell the story and look around for informal
mentoring success stories that may have happened organically at your
organization.
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What are the tangible benefits you’ll see from a mentoring program?
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Questions From Leadership
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Mentoring is a program that generates tangible results that go beyond the
immediate benefits of creating a tighter knit culture, improving employee
engagement, and increasing employee satisfaction. All of these benefits affect
the company bottom line in the real costs associated with employee
retention and leadership readiness.
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What will the load be on the company?3
Questions From Leadership
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Mentoring is highly time efficient compared to most learning approaches and participants typically only require 1-
3 hours every month. Software also keeps administrative costs low by
automating matching, tracking progress, and measuring results. The best software will also offer guided
program workflows and built-in reporting.
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4 Finally—Is Your Company Ready for This?
Questions From Leadership
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If you have retention issues, leadership readiness challenges,
knowledge transfer needs, or general employee morale concerns then yes,
your company is ready for a mentoring program.
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