Pollinate's Mentoring MasterClass
For program managers who want to plan a wildly successful mentoring program, a short series to develop your mentoring program playbook.
Pollinate’s Monday Mentoring Masterclass is a two-session series designed for program managers to develop a comprehensive mentoring program playbook, covering everything from defining purpose and data pathways to effective pairings, program launch, ongoing learning, and measuring ROI through mentoring scorecards. Each 60-minute session combines practical planning, case studies, and actionable strategies to ensure mentoring programs are engaging, efficient, and successful.
Session 1 (60 minutes)
Purpose, Pathways and Pairings
Refining the purpose
- From the purpose flows the audience identification
- the communication
- the engagement strategy and
- the data and learning pathways
Planning the data pathway
- What data do we have?
- What data do we need?
- What’s the most effective, efficient and low energy way to get it? (safety first)
Planning the learning pathway
- What support should be in place when pairs/cohorts “arrive”?
- What do we already have?
- What do we need to create?
The matching strategy
- Are there “exceptions” who will need special care in the process (VIPs, HIPOs, unique language speakers)
- Creating the algorithm that ties back to the purpose and makes the best use of the data
- How do we set “upper and lower” limits when scoring pairs?
Case studies that help inform
Session 2 (60 minutes)
Launch, Learning and Ensuring an ROI
Launches that set people up for success
- What does the intro look like?
- Where are the communications coming from?
- How can we make this feel like something people want to be part of?
Learning all along the way
- How can we unobtrusively monitor what people are doing
- Scheduling the pulse checks
- Wading in when a pair does not work
Mentoring scorecard
- What are the lead, lean and lagging indicators of mentoring programs
- Plan for program data gathering