M1.02. Designing and planning the mentoring process

Question 3

Re. 3. What are the programme purposes and scope (specific purposes for specific groups of employees, for the organisation)?

At this stage, it should be decided, first of all, whether the mentoring process is to correspond with the organisation's strategy. If yes, what purposes should it help accomplish? Will they be purposes of the organisation? Or individual purposes of particular participants?
Nowadays, mentoring programmes usually combine these two approaches. On the one hand, they are to accomplish purposes assumed by the organisation, e.g. accustoming new employees to the culture of the organisation, providing "hidden" knowledge assigned to particular jobs, while on the other hand, they constitute also individual development plans of mentees (at least partially). "Lining out" of proportions for these two elements is important already at the stage of mentoring planning. In addition, the space for individual mentoring plans should be defined, while competence models assigned to particular jobs (if the organisation has them) may appear helpful within this scope.