One of the main purposes of corporate mentoring is experiencing the benefits of this powerful relationship. It’s this relationship, which is built over time using the techniques and features of MentoringComplete, that results in a more effective and committed employee.

Through this transformational relationship, a mentoree gains not only valuable knowledge and skills from a mentor, but also increased self-confidence in one’s ability to perform better and to grow with the company.

However, it’s not only the mentoree who is impacted--mentors also report being significantly changed through the mentoring experience. Helping a mentoree helps the mentor be a better guide to his or her own employees. Mentoring someone also opens new networks and strategic alliances. In other words, mentoring benefits both partners in the relationship.

How Our Online Mentoring Software Increases These Benefits

What distinguishes our mentor software, MentoringComplete, from others is its focus on developing these powerful mentoring relationships. Other systems, though they may label themselves as mentoring systems, are focused more on short-term relationships that are like coaching rather than mentoring.

Coaching is a valuable intervention, but it's not the same as mentoring. You may find our article on the "25 Key Differences Between Coaching & Mentoring" valuable in explaining these differences. Our philosophy is to support the creation of meaningful, long-term relationships that go beyond coaching and that lead to transformation from a talented employee to an exceptional one.

We also believe that mentoring, to be successful, needs to be tied to a strategic business objective. Most often, mentoring is part of succession planning, a diversity initiative, retention planning, or employee development. It also supports knowledge and experience "transfer" with specific learning objectives used in a mentoring agreement. Linked in these strategic ways, the gains from mentoring can be applied directly to an organization’s current and future success in managing talent and remaining competitive. It can be the "edge" in talent wars to minimizing the risk that your top talent will go to your competition.