Transcript Employee Referral Bonus Program

Mentoring for Advancement
"A company's intellectual capital, talent,
intangibles, and capabilities all derive
from the competence and
commitment of its human resource
professionals."
Dave Ulrich
Professor of Business
Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
If your contribution as
Human Resources professionals is
key to your organization’s growth,
why is gaining support and resources
often difficult?
They speak a different language.
To what extent do you have business literacy?
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What are the annual revenues of your business?
How does your business "make money"? Of every $100 that your
organization takes in, how much comes out the other end as profit and
what happens in between?
What is your company's market value?
What is your company's type of funding? If equity, what type of stock are
you and who are some of the major investors? If debt, who are the major
lenders and what is their credit rating for your company?
Who are your company's major customers? Why do they buy from you
(what are their buying criteria)?
What is your market share in your dominant product/service? What is your
customer share of your top customers?
What is your company's firm brand or desired reputation among target
customers? How well is your company delivering on this brand promise?
Who are your primary competitors? What are their strengths?
What are the agenda items of a recent meeting of your company's board of
directors?
What are the objectives and goals of the top manager of your company?
Source: Dave Ulrich.
Self-Assessment
What are my strengths?
What are my challenges?
Do I have a good business IQ?
Am I aware of my professional needs?
To whom can I go to clarify them?
Should my goals focus on HR or the
business?
Leveraging Mentoring for your Growth
Laying the Groundwork for your mentoring
partnership.
We’ll talk about:
• Structuring your partnership
• Best Practices
• Common Mistakes
• Goal Setting
• Identifying potential mentors
• Approaching your prospective mentor
Structuring the Partnership
How often will we meet?
Where will we meet?
Do you want an agenda prior to our meeting?
What do you expect of me?
How long with our partnership last?
When will we know that our goals are met?
What if something gets in our way?
To what are we committing?
For how long?
Best Practices
 Book your appointments in advance.
 Keep your commitments.
 Listen to your mentors advice.
 Do your homework.
 Give your mentor feedback on how it is going
from your point of view.
 Thank your mentor.
Common Mistakes
 Choosing a mentor based on personality or position
in your organization.
 Choosing a mentor based on gender or racial
background.
 Missing appointments.
 Leaving it up to the mentor.
 Lack of follow through on goals and objectives of
partnership.
 Thinking that we should have goals related to
functional area only.
Goal Setting
Set Five-Year Goals
Break them down into manageable steps
Start with zero-sum thinking
Beware of the limiting voice inside your head!
Approaching Prospective Mentors
Put your request in writing
State clearly the reason for your request
Share your compatibility
Offer an agenda
Share goals
Don’t take a negative response personally
Be ready to approach more than one candidate
Prepare for your first meeting
1. Get to know each other
2. Outline Expectations
3. Review the mentee’s goals and
objectives.
4. Identify one goal to work toward by
the next meeting.
5. Confirm a date and time for the next
three meetings.
6. Determine how you’ll confront
hurdles should they arise.
We’ve covered a lot here in the time we’ve
had….How does this work for us as
professional mentoring match makers?
About Mentor Resources
We work with companies who want to
attract top talent,
develop and retain that talent
and
transfer organizational knowledge.
Focus on Mentoring
Mentoring is a powerful way to accomplish
these goals. At Mentor Resources, we
offer two methods of mentoring.
1. One with a mentor from outside your
organization or company.
AND
2. One with a mentor from inside your
organization.
Cross-Company Program
We select the mentor perfect for the
mentee’s needs.
• One-on-one mentoring partnership
• One-year partnership
• Business Forums
• Networking with other high-performing
professionals like you.
Our Clients
We match mentors and mentees from
the same company with:
WisdomShare™,a fully customizable,
one-of-a-kind software that
automatically matches the
experiences, the learnings and the
wisdom experienced people have with
others ready to advance their careers.
WisdomShare™
• Automatically matches mentees with mentors
based on 128 item match criteria
• Sets partnership goals
• Trains partners on best practices
• Communicates with participants
• Manages partnerships
• Handles all administrative tasks
• Evaluates mentoring success
• Is fully customizable
WisdomShare™
Match Process
After Mentor Agrees to Match
• Match is confirmed online.
• Match email is automatically sent to
mentee and mentor.
• First Orientation Packet is sent.
• Automatic Communication System is
set into motion including Skill Builder
Guides, updates and evaluations.
What does a coordinator need to do to get it
ready to use?
Upon registration, the coordinator customizes
the organizational site by:
• Entering Logo
• Specifying Program Length
• Specifying organizational title structure
• Reviewing, choosing and/or customizing
Skill Builder Guides
• Invites mentors and mentees to participate
What is automated after initial setup?
Match Email Announcement
Orientation and Training
Coaching for the first meeting
All Communication
Collecting Evaluation Data
Viewing Mentor/ Mentee Status
Auto Ping Feature
Web-enhanced knowledge sharing
application that provides content and
structure while it fully manages your
mentoring program.
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links, give me a business card.
If you’d like to see a demo about
WisdomShare™, send me an email.
My contact info…
Kim Wise
[email protected]
415.390.0918