A mentor platform or mentoring platform helps to operate an effective mentoring program and removes the friction and mundane work out of the mentoring program to create an environment where everyone wins.
Organizations create a mentoring program for their employees to increase employee engagement, provide them tools to grow their skills and better manage their career path by leveraging their internal experts. Large corporations utilize the power of mentoring to launch strategic initiatives such as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Change Management; Career Development and other employee engagement programs. Mentor Platforms are helping companies design and launch for teams and helping them accelerate their business and cultural transformation driving superior business results.
Most organizations start by organically creating a mentoring program and administering it manually using spreadsheets. That works great for some time, but soon the administration of the mentoring program becomes tedious and reduces the program's effectiveness. This situation puts the program in jeopardy, and the intended transformation does not take place.
A mentoring platform is a critical and valuable tool to drive transformation at scale across the organization. It is the digital connective tissue that creates engagement between employees and accelerates the organization's growth.
The mentoring platform matches mentors and mentees based on their skills, expertise, experience, and values
Provides workflows to guide mentors and mentees through their mentoring journeys.
The platform provides the audio, video, chat, and calendar tools necessary to have a rich mentoring experience.
Enables the mentors and mentees to identify To-Dos and action items throughout their mentoring conversations.
The mentoring platform enables the mentors and mentees to focus on specific mentoring topics to ensure learning and sharing of expertise.
Provides a mechanism to implement different mentoring models: 1:1 mentoring, reverse mentoring, group mentoring, and peer mentoring.
The mentoring platform also provides learning and training capabilities to help a mentor become a better mentor and help a mentee become a better mentee.
The platform helps build a community that learns together and grows together, where the participants help each other grow.
The mentoring platform helps the administrators and sponsors of the mentoring program design the program to create the best experience for mentors and mentees and create business outcomes for the organization.
It provides administrators with the ability to manage mentoring program participants, build momentum in the program, and measure tangible business results.
The platform enables the participants to create fireside chats with executives and create team events to celebrate mentoring success
The platform integrates with enterprise systems to unify profile information across the organization to create a better user experience and better analytics.
Mentoring is a powerful method to increase employee engagement and build a resilient organization and a Mentoring platform when deployed correctly can help organizations harness the true potential of their people and accelerate business growth. A mentoring platform that integrates multiple capabilities can help your organization succeed and drive transformation at scale.