Mentoring is a Must-Have

....not just a Nice-to-Have!

It's proven that mentoring enhances leadership skills, accelerates careers, improves employee retention and provides many additional benefits for both the mentee and the mentor. 

A common misconception is that mentoring is primarily for younger individuals, but research has shown that mentoring benefits individuals at all levels of experience.

But how do you find the right mentor, how do you get started and how do you build a mentoring relationship that helps you get where you want to go?

An Intentional approach...

I work with companies and associations to conduct workshops and programs that walk participants through a 4-step process to identify, initiate and build mentoring relationships that help them get to where they want to go.

Proven Value of Mentoring...

We can appreciate the soft benefits of mentoring, but consider the facts supporting the benefits of mentoring:

• More than four out of five of all leaders that you ever meet with have emerged as leaders because of the impact made on them by established leaders who mentored them. (John C Maxwell in "The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership")
• 70 percent of mentored businesses survive more than five years, double the rate for non-mentored small businesses over that same period.  (Inc Magazine)
• Research conducted by Management Mentors shows:
  • 80% of CEOs polled have stated they have had mentors. 
  • Access to mentors has given them insider knowledge.
  • Mentoring has assisted them in having careers that are fast tracked and forward moving, which they claim would have been much harder or impossible otherwise.
• Data from an Emerging Workforce Study showed that 35% of employees who don’t receive regular mentoring plan to look for another job within 12 month

What participants had to say:

• The templates for mentorship agreement and guidelines for first meeting are outstanding tools to help us get started.
• Excellent job at engaging the audience.
• I liked the inclusion of personal experience.
• Kathy Jo was poised and well educated on the topic.