Becoming an Effective Mentoring Leader: Proven Strategies for Building Excellence in Your Organization

APPENDIX VIGETTING STARTED IN LAUNCHING AN ORGANIZATIONAL MENTORING PROGRAM

Many organizational leaders think about launching an organizational mentoring program. Sometimes those programs are implemented to bolster classroom or online learning/training programs; sometimes they are implemented to support a talent management program; and sometimes they are implemented as stand-alone efforts to encourage leaders to take more active, hands-on roles in developing the promising people of the organization.

Even though this book is more about what mentors should do and not what organizations or mentees should do, this question is sometimes asked: How does an organization launch a mentoring program? Consider the following list of questions:

• What is ...