Build A Talent Pool

Mentoring

Most successful people say that a mentor changed their lives. It is hard to make it without a mentor and it takes too much time. Mentoring is a cost-effective way to develop and keep talented employees. Yet, many mentoring programs and mentoring relationships fail. Ours don't. We have over a dozen years of experience in creating successful, long-lasting mentoring programs and are two-time recipients of the national Athena Award for Excellence in Mentoring.

Our mentoring services include interviewing key stakeholders, determining business objectives, developing a plan to market the program to employees, matching mentoring pairs, customizing and conducting training workshops, facilitating partnership agreements with mentoring pairs, coaching mentoring pairs, conducting exit interviews with mentoring pairs, and evaluating the results of the mentoring program based on your business objectives.

Online mentoring program - NEW!

Our web-based mentoring program includes the following:

1. Mentors and protégés fill out an initial survey
2. The system provides protégés with several mentors to choose from
3. Real time online training is available to mentors and protégés
4. Individualized action plans are created online
5. Mentoring progress is regularly evaluated

Performance management

Few management practices are more basic or more widespread than performance appraisals – the formal mechanism through which managers evaluate the job performance of their employees. Yet, as common as this practice may be, it is generally agreed that many companies – both large and small – experience difficulty in structuring and managing the process. Learn how to:

• Choose the best appraisal method for your company
• Introduce the program to your employees
• Make sure it works well
• Handle difficult situations
• Develop disciplinary procedures
• Empower managers and employees
• Use employee recognition programs

Succession planning

What comes to mind when you think about what makes someone high potential? Competencies? Personal characteristics? Experiences? Identifying true high potential leaders requires a combination of these factors. We can help with developing and implementing a succession planning process for your organization.

Team building

None of us are as smart as all of us.

- Japanese proverb

High performance work teams produce dramatic results in productivity, employee morale and customer satisfaction. Learn how to:

• Formulate a clear statement of purpose and ensure that the team mission is understood and embraced by all team members
• Ensure that goals are realistic and accompanied by specific action plans that have their own measures of success
• Spell out the roles and responsibilities of each member
• Establish protocols for intervening when people are not living up to their responsibilities
• Set aside time for learning
• Establish ground rules for resolving differences and conflicts
• Create reward mechanisms

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