Mentorship program
Workforce Management Glossary
Mentorship program
What is a mentorship program?
A mentorship program is designed to pair an experienced worker with someone who might be new to a certain role or industry in order to provide guidance and support as well as share key learnings.
What is the value of a mentorship program?
A mentorship program lays the foundation for professional growth. By having a support person who works to share knowledge and brainstorm problem solving methods, less experienced workers have access to key insights and understandings. It also speeds up their development and knowledge building and therefore, their ability to be a productive team member.
On the other side of things, being involved in a mentorship program can be very empowering for experienced staff. This can lead to feelings of improved workplace morale. Additionally, having this responsibility also inadvertently encourages skilled workers to stay with the company longer, all of which increases employee retention.
How can a business create and manage mentorship programs effectively?
When creating and managing a mentorship program there are a lot of moving parts involved. Firstly, organisations need to have procedures and processes in place to ensure that the program has structure and that it can assist employees who may not have been a mentor before. Secondly, in order to be effective mentors, these more experienced employees need to be rostered on to the same shifts as their less experienced counterparts.
With Roubler’s workforce management software, mentor programs can be effectively created and efficiently run. Features such as an electronic document library will facilitate the communication of mentorship program processes to the relevant employees. Meanwhile, Roubler’s employee rostering software will take into account employee characteristics to automatically create matching rosters for mentors and their mentees.