Need some stats on mentoring to build your business case? Getting a mentoring program approved can take some persuasion, especially if the decision-makers have not had the experience of being in a well-designed program. Here are some useful statistics to help you build your business plan and develop a strong case. Incidence of mentoring A […]
Why embark on STRATEGIC mentoring?
Anyone who has attended our webinars or read our blogs would know that for the program designers at Art of Mentoring, everything starts with organisational goals. Our fundamental philosophy is around “strategic mentoring” or a “strategic approach to mentoring”. It just makes sense to us that mentoring initiatives must be closely linked to what the […]
How to build a mentoring culture
Critical to business success is the creation of an environment where people want to join the organisation, perform and commit to stay. Yet, developing and sustaining a positive organisational culture is easier said than done. In The Ripple Effect, Melissa Richardson pointed to a set of human needs that, when met, can create positive organisational […]
Mentoring & Wellbeing
The benefits of mentoring for career-related outcomes are widely accepted. At Art of Mentoring, we know that mentees and mentors get much more from the relationship than they expect and that mentoring has positive impacts on wellbeing. Whilst there are many descriptions on what wellbeing encompasses, in the most general sense wellbeing is focused on […]
Reciprocal mentoring – key to diversity-focused culture change
GUEST BLOG It has taken a long time but suddenly business leaders have started to listen to what HR has been telling them for decades – it’s time to get serious about diversity. Among the problems in taking this beyond rhetoric, however, is that traditional recipes, such as implicit bias training, don’t work. The reason […]
Why mid-career public servants need mentoring
Time and time again, government agencies tell us that middle management and front-line management are the least engaged cohorts, based on their census or survey data. Like many organisations, government agencies often focus career development opportunities on new recruits, graduates, high potentials and on senior leaders. Layers in between, especially front-line staff who provide services […]
Self-Matching vs Partner Preferencing
Self-Matching, Facilitator Matching, Traditional Mentoring, too many options and types of mentoring so how do I choose…? At Art of Mentoring, we have deliberately avoided developing self-matching, fast-knowledge-transfer solutions into our platform because we firmly believe that it does not lend itself to real, developmental mentoring. This type of mentoring is a mutual exchange that […]
Turning Mentoring on its Head: Reverse and Reciprocal Mentoring
In our 2022 research with HR.com on Mentoring in the Workplace, 18% of survey participants had group mentoring programs, 17% had reciprocal mentoring and 9% had reverse mentoring programs. During the pandemic, we saw a big rise in Reciprocal Mentoring – where traditional mentoring pairs flipped roles and mentors discovered they were receiving mentorship from […]
Association Case Studies – Engaging members with mentoring webinar
Join Art of Mentoring‘s CEO Melissa Richardson, Senior Program Designer Gina Miebusch and guest panellists Elizabeth Foley, CEO of the Australian Institute of Project Management and Monika Cole, Executive Officer Veterinary Business and Early Career Groups, Australian Veterinary Association, as we discuss how mentoring can engage members at any level. The panel explores how mentoring […]
Mentor Training
Great managers often don’t make great mentors automatically. Mentoring takes a certain skillset to get the most out of the conversation, in particular active listening. These skills can be an asset in the workplace to get the most out of direct reports. To help your mentors become good at what they do it is important […]