eMentorConnec The Mentoring Nightmare

1. If your mentoring program keeps you up at night... it’s time to automate

2. Administering your program manually is rarely scalable and can become an unmanageable amount of work. Conversely, a well-designed automated solution can make managing your mentoring program easy, fast, and effective. The Nightmare 80% Report Retention Challenges Of all Fortune 1000 companies that have mentoring programs, only 10% of those are automated. In today’s highly Have Mentoring Programs 70% competitive, fast-paced work environment, approximately 80% of 10% Have Automated Mentoring U.S. companies report challenges retaining and engaging employees.

3. The Question Companies must choose whether to continue manually administering their mentoring programs or use automation. And the pros to automation are significant: save time and costs over the long term, deliver easy and effective mentoring tools to participants, and scale programs as needed. VS Is automating a mentoring program the right solution for your business? If so, what are the benefits? Let's explore the factors that impact your choice.

4. Factor 1: Time & Money With a manual program, a program manager relies heavily on email, phone calls, in-person feedback, and meetings to gather information and determine the health of the program, levels of participation, and results. With automation, companies make an up-front investment to save money over the long run. Although it is possible to cobble together a somewhat automated solution using a range of disparate tools, the most effective mentoring automation solutions offer a “one-stop-shop” platform to address all mentoring needs in one place. “Automation has enabled us to take our mentoring program to the next level. Using the tool, we now offer high-quality virtual content and seamless communication to complement our in-person mentoring circles.” - President, National Industry Organization

5. Factor 2: Program Goals An automated mentoring solution can ease the administrative burden of a mentoring program, show the needed alignment to objectives, and track progress. A good solution will keep the objectives “front and center” to remind mentors and mentees of the ultimate purpose of the program. Some solutions can also allow managers to assess participation levels during the program. Consistent objectives drove impressive results in eMentorConnect®’s client mentoring programs Automated Program Participants improved Leadership Competency Proficiency: Automated Program Participants improved their Knowledge of their Company Business: Before Before - reported “Good” 41% 10% 93% 93% After After - reported “Excellent”

6. Factor 3: Matching With any opportunity to work with others, someone perceived to have more “prestige” will be a highly desired mentor. However, program managers should ensure that mentees and mentors are matched without unintended biases, so that each person in the mentorship receives the best match possible. Automation can perform complex matches in seconds and can help ensure that biases do not impact the matching process. Instead, mentors and mentees can be matched on a variety of factors, such as gender, geography, position, availability, desired skills to cultivate or improve and subject matter expertise. “Great Match” 95% 95% of participants said their partner was a great match. 2017 Client Survey

7. Factor 4: Keeping Mentors Happy In manual programs, program managers sometimes have difficulty getting mentors to volunteer to participate. That’s because they are concerned about time constraints and potential administrative overhead. Automated mentoring programs can allay those concerns. In several mentorship programs automated using the eMentorConnect® platform, we have found that mentors like participating a mentoring program that is well-structured. We find that our mentors return, time after time and finding mentors becomes an easy “sell” for program managers in this situation. 94.45% of our mentors say their competency as a mentor was good or excellent by the end of the program. Now that’s tapping into human capital!

8. Factor 5: Measuring Progress With a manually managed program, the way mentors and mentees capture information about their mentorship can vary, making it difficult to capture and compare “apples to apples” results. Progress..... Managers of automated programs have a different experience. They send surveys through their tool, see the results in aggregate and track baseline vs. end of program progress. And most importantly, using a tool allows them to quantitatively track progress - which can’t be done in manual programs. Knowledge Increase 52% Baseline vs. end of program surveys allowed program managers to track a 52% increase in mentee’s knowledge of the targeted learning topics.

9. Benefits To The Bottom Line With the eMentorConnect® Platform, you can expect these benefits: • Rapid adoption of your mentoring program Ease of matching mentors and mentees on a variety of factors (gender, geography, position, hard or soft skills, subject matter expertise) • Mentorship alignment with corporate and program objectives • Increased effectiveness of mentoring programs • Streamlined program administration • • Ease of reporting and ascertaining your program’s return on investment By creating the employee-first, mentoring-based culture you desire and saving you time and money, automating your solution can positively impact your company’s bottom line.

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