How to Efficiently and Effectively Pair Mentors and Mentees
If you’re starting a mentoring program, this is everything you need to build a successful registration and pairing plan.
What will you learn?
The foundation of a successful mentoring program is the mentor-mentee relationship. And a good relationship starts with a great pairing. But how do you ensure that each pairing is relevant when there are dozens or hundreds of employees to match?
This problem—pairing mentors and mentees at scale—is a problem we’ve put a lot of work into fixing. In our white paper, How to Efficiently and Effectively Pair Mentors and Mentees. We break down:
- What makes a successful match;
- The three different ways to pair participants;
- How matching software works; and
- Tips for the registration, pairing process, and communicating matches.
If you’re starting a mentoring program, this is everything you need to build a successful registration and pairing plan.
Manually pairing mentors and mentees is a gruelling process that results in a lot of guesswork and blind hope that things would work out. Now, Together’s customizable pairing algorithm makes matching more efficient and effective.”
What you'll find inside
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The importance of pairing in a mentorship program: Why getting a good match is arguably the most important part of any mentorship program.
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What makes a good match? Looking at the characteristics of a successful match.
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The limitations of manually pairing: Why interviewing employees and using spreadsheets only works up to a point.
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What is mentorship software? A quick overview of how mentorship software makes matching much, much easier and faster.
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How matching software works: Looking at the details of Together’s matching algorithm and how to use it (for free).
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Waves of registration in a mentoring program: Explaining what to expect when you start encouraging registration for your mentoring program.
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Etiquette in communicating matches: Outlining how to let mentors and mentees know they’re matched and who should make the first move.