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Evaluating Mentoring

Whether you use sophisticated metrics or simply ask participants, it is important to gain feedback on mentoring to evaluate whether the relationships worked, made a difference and contributed worthwhile organisational outcomes.

You need a plan to gather both qualitative and quantitative data before, during and after the mentoring.

• Success Indicators - identify what you can measure pre and post mentoring to gauge benefits;
  
• Early Follow-up - check in with people soon after the program launch to ensure that they have made contact and begun the mentoring relationship;
  
• Monitor - stay in touch, build two-way communication, identify any potential problems and resolve them sooner, rather than later;
  
• Mid-point Review - get the group together, face-to-face or via webinar. Workshop what's working well and what could improve. Help them create strategies to gain the most value from their mentoring.
  
• Finalé - a final group session gives closure to participants. Make it special and acknowledge their contribution. This is the time to recognise their achievements and take feedback for improvement for future programs. Questionnaires can be used to elicit their evaluation and quantify qualitative input.
  
• Post-program - schedule review of longer-term success indicators at appropriate intervals. Mentoring will show immediate benefits but the greatest gains come from the enduring effect of mentoring.

Evaluating Your Mentoring

What return on investment can reasonably be expected from mentoring? How do you know mentoring has an impact on the organisational bottom-line? Can you put "hard" measures on "soft" values? What and how can you evaluate?

At Mentoring Works we’ve helped organisations like yours to measure the strategic advantages and personal benefits of mentoring. Our materials are used to evaluate programs all over the world.

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