Designing Mentoring Programmes

At KMP+ House of Mentoring we define mentoring as a mutual learning process, where both mentor and mentee learn through their collaboration. A successful learning partnership requires the right match between mentor and mentee. The good question is, how do you define the right match and the right matching criteria for your mentoring programme? Chemistry and trust "A right match is a match where … [Read more...] about 5 Tips to Match Mentors and Mentees

A mentor is someone with whom the mentee can have a confidential conversation about career aspirations, challenges and dreams and about planning the next steps in mentee's career development. Therefore, mentor should not be mentees direct manager or any other in a direct line of authority. However, the direct manager is one of mentee's most important stakeholders in the organisation and should … [Read more...] about Why Mentee’s Direct Manager Should Actively Engage in the Mentoring Programme

Let's look at the benefits of virtual mentoring programmes and the key issues and success criteria that creates high learning outcome and ROI. How can you build a solid virtual mentoring programme where participants are able to build close relationships and have insightful conversations when they are never able to meet in the same physical location? This question has become more important since … [Read more...] about The Benefits of Virtual Mentoring Programmes

The three-way conversation between coach, client and the client's direct manager, is commonplace in coaching. Sometimes also involving HR, it provides a valuable opportunity to clarify agendas, establish the support needed from the direct manager, and improve the relationship between the manager and the employee (Clutterbuck, 2014). Often the role of the coach here is to coach both the manager and … [Read more...] about Mentor vs Mentee’s Direct Manager – a Question of Confidentiality?