How to Start a High-Impact Mentoring Program
Great mentoring programs don’t just happen. They are built through planning and sustained commitment while continually improving the program. Learn our five-step process.
Mentoring Software for High-Potential Employees
Benefits of High Potential Mentoring
Retaining your high potentials is a key factor in continuing your organization’s success. A healthy pipeline of talent with the right knowledge, capabilities and leadership aptitude enables organizations to stay competitive. However, with the war for talent in full swing, high potentials expect investment in their development and their organizational engagement is essential to retaining them. Mentoring is an impactful way to solve this. A PwC study found 35 percent of millennials said they were attracted to employers who offer excellent training and development programs and saw it as the top benefit they wanted from an employer, with working with qualified coaches and mentors being the highest valued development opportunity.
- Improve retention of key contributors
- Deepen your leadership bench strength
- Provide critical career development experiences
“86% of business & HR leaders believe they don’t have an adequate leadership pipeline.”
Software for High Potential Mentoring
Guide High Potential Development
Give your high potentials the critical development experiences that keep them engaged with your organization and building key skillsets for tomorrow. With Chronus software, high potentials progress through a step-by-step guided mentoring plan, helping them to get the most out of their mentorship with company leadership mapped to key goals.
Manage Leadership Connections
High potentials and their mentors, who are generally executive leaders, are busy. Chronus software enables a productive development program that respects the time of mentors and mentees by establishing availability schedules to ensure the optimal amount of time is allotted for mentoring, preventing program burnout.
Measure High Potential Mentoring Results
Chronus software provides an extensive admin toolset that makes high potential mentoring easy to administrate and measure. Progress tracking and outcome reporting capabilities allow you to check on the relationship, track the connection and export reports to share with your leadership.
Additional Resources
Pitching Career Mentoring to Stakeholders: Four Questions To Prepare For
Gaining leadership approval is crucial: their support will ensure resources for the program, prioritize the initiative, and clear your program for launch.
Mentoring Program Growing Pains: When’s the Right Time for Software?
Not every mentoring program needs software, but as your program evolves, you’ll likely encounter mentoring program growing pains that software can soothe.