If you’re seeking a powerful way to grow and develop your talent, consider how many of today's leaders have had the benefit of a mentor's wisdom and experience to help them grow into their current roles. How might a mentoring program benefit your entire organization? Mentoring is more than just a cost-effective alternative to training – it promotes knowledge sharing, leadership development, skill development, and employee engagement throughout your organization.
At Insala, we’ll guide you through every step of developing a mentoring program to meet your specific needs. Our mentoring solutions are more than just software. Our mentoring experts understand all of the elements needed to launch a sustainable and successful mentoring program, and will provide you with a total solution that includes mentoring software, mentee and mentor training, and – most importantly - strategic program planning that will help you define your objectives for the program and determine criteria for mentor-mentee matching and pairing.
We have experience assisting organizations of all sizes and employee demographics in developing mentoring programs that help them meet their business objectives. Meet your organization's talent development objectives with our mentoring program solutions tailored to your specific needs.
Some of the most common business objectives that Hi-Impact Mentoring® can help you achieve include:
Improving Onboarding
Improving Workplace Diversity
Knowledge Sharing
Leadership Development
Career Development
Skill Development
Organizations will gain the following:
Adaptability and Accessibility – Our mentoring solution provides you with a turn-key process that can be tailored to an organization's needs through a globally accessible platform.
Tools and Applications - Take advantage of our software framework to support the mentoring process. Key features include a step-by-step implementation guide; tools for matching and pairing, assessment, training, and progress tracking; and direct mentor-mentee communication.
Cost-Effectiveness – Save time and money using the latest flexible web-based technology.
April 26, 2013
How to Prevent 7 Common Problems in Mentoring Programs
Our mentoring program was successful, but we can’t prove it, and we’re about to lose funding for it. There’s too much pressure to implement a mentoring program, and no time to actually plan one. Our program’s mentees just aren’t learning the things that are necessary to their development. Everyon... More
March 22, 2013
Best Practices for Creating an Integrated Coaching and Mentoring Program
Sometimes you need more than what a mentoring program or coaching program alone can offer your organization. But if you only have the time and money to implement one program, which one should it be? It doesn’t have to be a matter of choosing one or the other. In a recent webinar, Insala’s Judy Corn... More
March 21, 2013
Defining the Differences between Mentoring and Coaching
If you’re considering implementing a mentoring or coaching initiative in your organization, you probably have questions. Which will best meet your objectives? Which employees will be better suited to mentoring than coaching, and vice-versa? Mentoring and coaching do have several fundamental similari... More
January 07, 2013
Designing a Mentoring Program That Improves Onboarding
We’ve all been through onboarding: the conference room, the policy agreements, the tax forms, the acronyms. How much of it all did we retain? And more importantly, how much of it was information that truly helped us understand the inner workings of our new company or learn new skills necessary for o... More
December 14, 2012
Mentoring Program Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Mentoring is as old as time and actively used in organizations today. Personally learning from someone who has been there and done that is the most fundamental way to pass along knowledge. It holds true whether its learning to start a fire, hunt, farm or for creating killer spreadsheets, writing c... More
November 07, 2012
Mentoring and Talent Development: How to do they fit together?
If you are considering a targeted mentoring program for talent development, or if you presently manage a mentoring program, chances are you’ve been asked to provide a road map where at the end you are expected to tie it all together and prove it’s business value and ROI. With so many variables to c... More
June 20, 2012
How Can Mentoring Facilitate Learning and Development Across An Organization?
Mentoring is used today by organizations to satisfy any number of unique business objectives from onboarding, diversity or most often centering on leadership development, succession planning, employee career development and knowledge transfer. One trend now in learning and development (L&D) is tapp... More
May 11, 2012
7 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting a Mentoring Program
Implementing any new company sponsored program can seem a daunting objective and pitfalls lay at every turn. Corporate mentoring programs are no different. To minimize challenges and maximize program results, we’d like to share seven recommendations that have proven successful to real-world mentor... More
July 22, 2011
How One Company Used Mentoring to Improve Time-to-Productivity for a Critical Role
According to a recent Monster.com survey, it takes 6.2 months on average for new managers to become productive enough to be considered profitable investments for the company. During that time period, new managers are actually expenses rather than valuable investments. Likewise, for any role – par... More
June 08, 2011
How to Position Mentoring for Strategic Talent Development
There are many benefits of formal corporate mentoring program as a talent development strategy. For example, mentoring can be a cost-effective alternative or complement to traditional training programs, and a formal mentoring program’s alignment with critical business objectives can be clearly measu... More