Mentoring Process

If you struggle with the need to improve employee engagement, retain talent, and develop skills while dealing with on-going pressures from the market place, mentoring may be the answer. Mentoring  -  designed to bridge experience, knowledge, and skills with emerging talent for people at all levels throughout the organization - builds short- and long-term developmental relationships.

• Mentoring is a knowledge management process – holding the organization’s information capital and culture as employees move.
• Mentoring is a performance facilitation strategy.
• Mentoring is a tool for recruiting and retaining talent.

We help you define and implement the system that works for you – from beginning to end. We work with you to:

• Identify the needs – Where is talent development most critical to your short and long-range business goals?
• Design the process - What elements will you include? How will the mentoring programs be coordinated?
• Implement the process, including identifying candidates to be mentors, matching mentors to people to be mentored, and tracking the process
• Evaluate the process – What indicators of “success” are most important to you? How will these be measured?

Mentoring helps your organization:


• Maintain the technical and leadership capability to meet your business goals
• Build capability to realize the challenge of technological change
• Develop a cadre of leaders who are capable and committed to the future of the business

To support your mentoring program we offer:

Mentoring workshops

Both mentors and those they mentor need to learn about the mentoring process and how best to work within their roles in this process.

Assessments and on-line tools

• On-line talent bank for matching mentors and mentees
• 360 Assessments for Mentoring Skills
• Style assessments to enhance matching and interaction

Consulting and process development

The Odyssey Group works with you to create the unique, customized combination of products and services to meet your needs. As always, our focus is on creating a relationship that improves your bottom line. Use your human capital to build your competitive advantage.

You may also find that one of our creative additions to traditional mentoring fits your needs. As valuable as one-on-one relationships are, allowing people to grow with several mentors, formal and informal, can accelerate development and make good use of mentors’ time and talent. Sometimes group mentoring may be an option – when several of those being mentored are at the same stage of development or need specialized learning.