Reverse Mentoring – Cisco’s Successful Mentor Program
Cisco’s Reverse Mentoring Program had great success. Learn more about Reverse Mentoring Programs.
Types of Mentoring Programs: On-boarding, Skill Transfer, ERG, Talent Management, Reverse Mentoring, Communities of Practice, Succession Planning.
The word Mentor goes back to Greek mythology. Mentor was the son of Alcumus. In his old age, Mentor was a friend of Odysseus who placed Mentor and Odysseus’ foster-brother Eumaeus in charge of his son Telemachus when Odysseus left for the Trojan War. Because of Mentor’s and Eumaeus’ near-paternal relationship with Telemachus, the personal name Mentor came to be used in the 18th century as a term meaning a father-like teacher.
The modern use of the word, mentor, is derived from this. A mentor is a trusted friend or a counselor with more experience who shares insights. Mentors provide expertise to less experienced individuals, known as a mentees (or protégés), to help them advance their careers, enhance their education, and build their networks.
By definition, mentoring involves communication and is relationship based. In the organizational setting, mentoring can take many forms. But generally, mentoring is a process for the informal transmission of knowledge, social capital, and the psychosocial support perceived by the recipient as relevant to work, career, or professional development. Mentoring entails informal communication, over a sustained period of time, between a person who is perceived to have greater relevant knowledge, wisdom, or experience (the Mentor) and a person who is perceived to have less (the Mentee). (From Wikipedia)
In the modern workplace, there are seven types of formal mentoring programs. Mentor Resources has tools for all of these.
Each of these types of Mentoring Programs improves employee retention and engagement, if there is a good match and the Mentor-Mentee “click”. WisdomShareTM, our matching algorithm is based upon skills, job experience and personality traits.
Cisco’s Reverse Mentoring Program had great success. Learn more about Reverse Mentoring Programs.
Mentor Resources has tools for managing a mentor program, including mentoring software preferred by experienced mentor program administators.
There are seven types of formal mentoring programs. Mentor Resources is one of the leading providers of software for managing mentoring program
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