Pitching Career Mentoring to Your Leadership

Tips for Success

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.

What exactly does a mentoring program look like?

1

Questions From Leadership

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.

What are the tangible benefits you’ll see from a mentoring program?

2

Questions From Leadership

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.

What will the load be on the company?3

Questions From Leadership

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.

4 Finally—Is Your Company Ready for This?

Questions From Leadership

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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Easily start, manage, and measure an effective mentoring program with software from Chronus.

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