Introducing the Cross-Company Mentoring Revolution — Join Now!
Internal company mentor programs are not a new thing, often implemented to address an identified deficiency in the business. Whether it is greater engagement, talent development or for diversity and inclusion, mentoring delivers tangible outcomes at both the organisation and people level.
Over the past 30 years, we’ve seen an evolution of mentoring; the traditional hierarchical approach to mentoring has been replaced with both reverse and peer mentoring.
While these developments have proven valuable, it’s now time to take it a step further and really amplify the power of mentoring.
That’s why we are now proposing a mentoring revolution through cross company mentoring!
As the name implies, cross company mentoring is simply connecting a mentee with a mentor from a non-competing company. Why?
Just as internal mentoring enables greater connectivity and visibility of ideas within an organisation, cross company mentoring offers invaluable insights and learnings from other industries and businesses that could be brought back to enhance your organisation and your people. You can read more about the specific benefits in this recent article.
When we start talking about cross company mentoring, many organisations first inclination is fear; fear that exposing their people to other organisations will put them at risk of their people being poached and leaving.
However, we see it playing out differently.
This is actually about showing your people you are fearless, empowering them to develop and enabling your organisation to grow.
For small and medium sized businesses, cross company mentoring becomes even more relevant. Often challenged with limited resources — not having access to enough quality mentors either internally or within their network — SME’s struggle to meet the learning and development needs of their people, who also expect personal and career growth.
This demand has led to the explosion of HR software at both the enterprise and SME level into a $14B market. Now we have consumer focussed tools that are collaborative in nature and promote self-directed learning, although usually they’re only available within a single entity.
Mentorloop is already helping organisations to implement more effective mentor programs within their businesses. However, we are more than just a software provider. We are a company that truly believes in the power of mentoring and delivering innovative mentoring solutions for ALL types of organisations.
Mentorloop is a platform and a community. And that is what sets us apart from the rest.
Become a change maker; join our community and help us create and shape this new and exciting way of mentoring, while challenging your people to think and learn differently.
If you’re interested in finding out more about our Cross-Company Mentor program please register via this form and we will be in touch with more details.
