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.

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