MediaPro offers tools to support an effective business mentoring process. The lack of a cohesive and scalable mentoring management system can be a barrier to achieving positive mentoring outcomes.
Whether you are currently running a mentoring process in your organization or are just now considering one, we invite you to learn more about our matching and program management solutions.
Contact us today for a demonstration or to discuss your mentoring needs in more detail.
Why a Mentoring Program?
Many successful corporations including Microsoft, Boeing, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Southwest Airlines, and State Farm Insurance, have realized great value in corporate mentoring programs. These programs help meet such challenges as addressing diversity, preparing current and future leaders, retaining high performers, managing collective knowledge, and reducing the cost of learning.
- Business Finance Magazine reports that 77% of companies credited mentoring with increasing employee retention and performance.
- ASTD reports that Managerial productivity increased by 88% when mentoring was involved versus only a 24% increase with training alone.
- More than 60% of college and graduate students listed mentoring as a criterion for selecting and employer after graduation (Source: MMHA)
As a nationally recognized corporate learning and performance company, MediaPro offers mentoring tools that can make your mentoring program more effective and more likely to achieve business results.
Opti-Match provides the framework and technology to deliver impactful mentoring programs that nurture future leaders, improve employee productivity and increase the value of human capital.
Backed by a proprietary participant-matching technology, administrators can design a custom-tailored program, provide participants with a step-by-step process, and easily tune the program for best results.
Opti-Match helps organizations to realize the full potential of their human capital.
Mentoring is one of the most effective methods an organization can use to achieve diversity goals.
Research by Harvard Business School has shown that minority workers who advance the farthest share a common characteristic: a strong network of mentoring relationships.
Catalyst reports that 44% of CEOs list mentoring as one of the three most effective strategies to enhance women's advancement to the senior level.
Opti-Match provides the framework and technology that helps you to optimize your organizational diversity.
A corporate mentoring program can prepare mid-level managers and executives to move successfully into senior-level positions by creating a means to transfer the knowledge, practical experience, and grassroots know-how to the right people.
ASTD reports that 75% of executives point to mentoring as being critical to their rise to the senior level.
Opti-Match provides a framework and technology for succession planning, ensuring that best practices are passed on to the next generation of leaders.
Within an organization, mentors can be very valuable in keeping someone on the right career track or professional learning pathway. A good mentor provides opportunities to gain needed skills and expertise, encouragement in fulfilling professional goals, help in creating a development plan, and guidance in career advancement.
ASTD reports that 77% of companies report that mentoring programs were effective in increasing employee retention and that 35% of employees who do not receive regular mentoring look for another job within 12 months.
Opti-Match provides the framework and technology for supporting employee retention programs, helping you to preserve the value of your organization’s human capital.
"We are a successful company because our employees not only focus on making great products, but also on making EACH OTHER great."
~ Microsoft Corporation
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