Supporting peer mentoring and coaching
Problem
When faced with challenges, employees' success is often limited by their manager's expertise and ability to help. Mentoring or coaching is sometimes seen as an inaccessible, complex and long-term commitment, resulting in missed opportunities to get help from more experienced peers in the organization.
Solution
- •Encouraging employees to proactively seek out and connect with people they want to learn or need support from across the organization, not just their direct manager.
- •Reframing mentoring and coaching within the organization as a diverse process that can have many formats like workshops, presentations, brainstorming sessions or even more direct one-on-one relationships with peers.
- •Offering ways how employees needing help and support can be matched with peers who are willing to help or practice their mentoring or coaching skills.
- •Identifying, supporting and growing future leaders by giving them opportunities to practice coaching and mentoring skills.