SEATTLE, WA –  Chronus, the leading mentoring platform for enterprises, today announced new platform capabilities designed to address one of the most persistent challenges in mentoring programs: mentoring engagement dropoff after partners are matched.

While program administrators at companies invest heavily in building and launching mentoring initiatives for employees, many face an all-too-common engagement gap. Participants connect at first but then struggle to stay motivated, leading to missed meetings and diminished impact. For years, program leaders have lacked the tools to understand why engagement stalls—or how to reverse the trend.

Chronus’ October release tackles this challenge head-on by focusing on key reasons that can lead to disengagement within mentoring programs – lack of clarity, a poor partner match, uncertainty around what to discuss, and analytics that don’t go deep enough for program administrators to know how to intervene when needed. The new product capabilities available to customers in the Chronus platform include:

• Game Plan Builder. Participants must understand why they’re in the program and what they want to achieve. To that end, Chronus has introduced  the Game Plan Builder, an AI-guided experience that helps participants reflect on and set goals for their mentoring partnership. This structured reflection ensures each participant enters their mentorship with focus and intent.
  
• Purpose-Enhanced Matching. Chronus is making its proprietary Purpose Assessment, which helps each individual better understand how they’re best motivated at work, available to all customers as part of its core platform experience. This allows administrators to add another aspect to matching by pairing participants around shared motivational drivers. Purpose-enhanced matching  ensures that trust is fast-tracked by matching participants on a level deeper than their job title or skills.
  
• Guided Conversation Agendas. Mentoring only works if participants meet and have high-impact conversations that align with their goals. Building on Chronus’ Guided Conversations released earlier this year, participants now have access to pre-built agendas that boost confidence, reduce friction, and encourage them to prioritize mentorship meetings amid competing demands.
  
• In-a-Word Sentiment Reporting. Administrators will gain enhanced visibility into the impact of mentoring meetings happening throughout a program with the new In-a-Word sentiment reporting, capturing how participants’ mindsets shift. Each participant is asked to reflect on how they’re feeling before and after each mentoring conversation. The reflection also ensures they’re more likely to carry that improved sentiment forward to the rest of their working day. 

This new report captures employee sentiment before and after mentoring conversations to help solve for mentoring engagement dropoff.

The result is mentoring programs that scale effectively, close skills and experience gaps, strengthen culture, and deliver ROI—all while maximizing limited resources.

“The engagement dropoff that happens within mentoring programs isn’t because of unmotivated people,” said Courtney Deimel, VP of Product & Innovation at Chronus. “People want to grow their skills, advance their careers and help others do the same, but how do we surround them with the right tools that help them stay engaged with that intent? At Chronus, we’re helping people achieve what they set out to do—prioritize development and performance. Even with the best intent, the reality is that we are all juggling a lot and need support to achieve the growth we desire.”

With today’s release, Chronus continues to transform how organizations design, guide, and measure mentoring relationships that drive performance and productivity.

About Chronus
Chronus is the leading purpose-driven development platform, providing enterprise-ready solutions designed to help organizations create and maintain a high-performance culture. Offering an innovative approach that fosters connection, shared learning and growth through guided mentoring and employee communities, Chronus empowers organizations to build resilience and success by ensuring employees feel connected, understood and developed.

A standout in the market because of its scalability, simplicity, and guided mentoring approach, Chronus has successfully partnered with major brands and progressive companies for almost two decades. Chronus has delivered remarkable results for companies including Amazon, HCLTech, ExxonMobil, PNC Financial, Zendesk and Paychex.

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