Keeping employees has become more challenging than ever. Between quiet quitting and The Great Resignation, companies without effective retention strategies risk losing employees to competitors. Beyond better pay and remote work flexibility, workers increasingly want a clear path forward. That “clear path” is best delivered with social learning opportunities like career mentoring. Career mentoring solves multiple problems that HR leaders […]
Long-term goals are objectives that you set and intend to achieve over time. When you create goals for the long term (versus short term), you plan to achieve those goals in the future using a series of different stopping points to check on progress. The benefit of setting these types of goals is that you get to determine what “long-term” […]
Setting goals is important to helping mentoring programs succeed. Here are 4 tips that will help you and your leaders build mentorship goals within each mentoring program relationship.
Mentoring Relationship Goals Most everyone knows about SMART goals: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-bound. Chances are you have used this mnemonic acronym at some point in your career to help you focus in on a performance goal or complete a complex and multifaceted project. I myself have used it and have taught others about it.
