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Case Study

Organization Utilizes Mentoring Software to Support Persons with Disabilities

The Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work helps people with disabilities break down barriers to employment by giving job seekers the tools and confidence to educate and market themselves. CCRW helps employers become leaders in socially and fiscally responsible hiring and retention practices. More than 1 in 10 working-age Canadians live with disability. CCRW is paving the way to a fully inclusive nation because disability should never stand in the way of ambition.

Group of coworkers with varying abilities meeting at boardroom table.

The Challenge

CCRW needed to adapt Dolphin Disabilities Mentoring Day from a live, in-person event into a meaningful virtual mentoring experience during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The challenge was to create strong connections between businesses, communities, employment organizations, and persons with disabilities without the benefit of meeting in person.

Our Solution

Pollinate supported CCRW in designing a high-impact virtual mentoring experience using the Knowledge Transfer Index to create meaningful mentor and mentee matches.

Mentors and mentees completed the KTI assessment and received a Meet Your Match report to guide their relationship. Pollinate also launched a custom DMD conference portal where participants could access training materials, mentoring resources, and guidance for building meaningful conversations around disability, employment, and inclusion.

The Results

CCRW successfully matched 35 mentoring pairs through a dedicated Pollinate Platform group.

Participants gained a deeper understanding of their individual learning styles, received customized guidance through their Meet Your Match reports, and accessed supportive resources designed to help them make the most of the virtual mentoring experience.

CCRW and Dolphin logos.

Testimonials & Custom Content

Testimonials

“I want to say THANK YOU in the strongest way possible. I had a beyond fabulous experience. My mentor and her team were highly motivated, effective, very interesting, and passionate people. They shared with me a great deal of information that gave me a true sense of what they do and more importantly, what they will achieve in future.”

Mentee

“Thank you for organizing this great event, it was a great learning experience for me & everything went so smoothly! Cheers on the success of this event.”

Mentee

President, JM Reid Group

“It was really interesting working with Pollinate to ensure our mentor matches were equipped with the information they needed to have a successful mentorship experience during the DMD event. The Pollinate Knowledge Transfer Index really provides useful insights into the individual learning styles and core motivations of our mentees and mentors.”

James Burton

Cheif Business Development Officer, CCRW

Disabilities Mentoring Day Learning Pathway.

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