Why Use Mentoring

Why use mentoring?

What are your current challenges in developing your people?

• Retention of employees
• Induction of new employees
• Performance
• Change management – due to mergers or acquisitions
• Siloed business lines
• Diversity issues
• Leader development
• Knowledge management
• Career progression/succession planning

With appropriate design and set up mentoring is able to support and have a significant impact on all of these issues. For example, well-designed mentoring programs increase retention of talent by a minimum of 35%, amongst mentored groups compared with unmentored. The power of well executed mentoring is undisputed and is arguably the most cost-effective developmental intervention an organisation can introduce. You are using your most precious resource, your people, to develop your people.

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