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Ann Rolfe is internationally recognised as Australia's leading specialist in mentoring, and is available for speaking, training and consulting. Here Ann shares her knowledge and allows you to ask your most pressing questions about mentoring.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Is it too soon to think about mentoring?


I reckon it takes at least 100 days lead-time to set up a successful mentoring strategy. 

There’s no “one size fits all”. You have to tailor mentoring to the people, the situation, and the outcomes you want to achieve. 

There are a lot of variables and many decisions to be made and of course you’ve got to get the mentoring message out and the stakeholders on board. You’ll need to have a plan to recruit, match and train mentoring participants and have the infrastructure in place to train and support them. Then there’s monitoring and evaluation, which must be planned from the outset.

So, can you get all that done in less than a hundred days (that's 14.3 weeks)? What do you think? Post your comment below

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