Over the last decade, employee mentoring programmes have demonstrated their strategic worth to organisations, which is why so many businesses, large and small, are establishing mentoring programmes at all levels throughout their organisations.

In fact, 92% of Fortune 500 companies already invest heavily in employee mentoring programmes – but many of them have overlooked the critical step of making sure that executives and leaders chosen to act as mentors are suitably trained for the role.

Why is that such an important step? Because when a mentor is not aligned with the goals of the programme and the goals of their mentee, the mentoring experience can quickly become a negative one.