Celebrate mentoring this month

Written By Alex Santos

National Mentoring Day, marked annually on October 27 since 2014, shines a spotlight on the crucial role mentoring plays in nurturing career development across diverse populations. Whether you're a student, a recent graduate, or a seasoned professional in the C-suite, a mentor can provide invaluable guidance. This global event, initiated in the U.K. in 2014 and now celebrated worldwide, promotes mentoring initiatives and encourages individuals to either mentor or be mentored.

Manager mentoring an employee.

According to a 2024 report by the firm Kahoot!, there's an increasing need for skill development to prevent career stagnation as technology evolves and accelerates changes to the workplace. Mentors are instrumental in helping professionals enhance their skills and adapt to changes like those brought on by AI.

Formal mentoring programs require a commitment from both parties, with characteristics such as genuine interest, clear communication, and mutual goals being essential. A recent survey by Enhancv highlights that younger generations—Gen Z, Millennials, and Gen X—place significant trust in their supervisors for career advice, partly due to HR's emphasis on diversity, equity, and work-life balance.

For organizations, mentoring is beneficial at all levels, enhancing leadership skills, enhancing employer brands, promoting loyalty, and circulating expertise internally. Resources on effective mentoring and differences from coaching are abundant, offering insights into establishing impactful mentorships. Becoming a mentor is encouraged as a way to share expertise and foster professional development within any organization.

If your organization has a fomal mentoring program in place, highlight this in your recruiting efforts and in candidate interviews. Every single differentiator you can spotlight to prospective hires can make a difference in the highly competitive labor market we are experiencing.

Do you need assistance setting up a formal mentoring program for your organization? Give us a call, we’d love to help!

Alex Santos
As Managing Member of Collabor8 Learning, my role is to build and execute learning and development strategies for organizations seeking to improve the return they are getting from their training programs. We focus on four core areas: performance analysis, instructional design, e-learning development, and learning management. As a hybrid HR/instructional design consultancy, Collabor8 Learning partners with your team to leverage today's training technologies to increase the productivity of your people. I am a senior human resources and training executive with over 17 years of progressive experience. My work in private industry has focused heavily on the development of learning and development systems that transform employee performance from ordinary, to remarkable. I accomplish this by combining organizational development strategies and tactics to blended learning programs with line of sight alignment to clearly defined performance goals. Additionally, I launched Miami Payroll Center in conjunction with my brother and sister-in-law in 2004 to meet the payroll needs of small to mid-size organizations. Our consultative approach to guiding new entrepreneurs as well as more seasoned business owners in alleviating the pain of payroll processing has created a very successful and growing payroll processor in the market. Specialties: Instructional Systems Design, E-Learning, Learning Management Systems, Payroll, Organizational Development, Employee engagement, HR Strategic Planning, Talent Acquisition & Management, Leadership Development, Coaching & Mentoring, Employment Branding Proposition & Positioning, Workforce Planning, Performance Management, and Leadership Development.
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