Establishing the Mentor-Mentee Relationship in your Organization
August 29, 2025
10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT
60 Minutes
307126
Group Attendees: Any number of participants
Recorded Version: Unlimited viewing for 6 months ( Access information will be emailed 24 hours after the completion of live webinar)
This webinar will cover the value which mentoring can have on your organization’s career development efforts. In this webinar, you will learn about the business case for implementing a mentorship program within your organization and the tools and tips that successful mentorship initiatives should exemplify.
How do you know if a person will make a good mentor or mentee? We will discuss the steps you need to take when determining who should be in a mentor-mentee relationship. The process needed for a successful mentorship takes time and communication to grow.The tools and techniques we will cover in this webinar will help your organization create its own mentor-mentee program to help grow your talent.
Why should you Attend: Is your organization doing what it takes to foster successful mentor-mentee relationships amongst your staff? Mentorship programs play a vital role in your organization's succession planning and career development efforts. How do you know that your company’s mentorship program is going to be effective?
By attending this webinar, you will gain the tools and tips necessary for establishing the business case for mentorship programs, mentor matching, the role of the mentor, the role of the mentee, and how to establish a lasting and effective relationship. Choosing the wrong mentor or mentee can lead to wasted time and effort. Make sure you are using the right methods to create and expand your mentorships to benefit your organization and your employees.
Areas Covered in the Session:
- The business case for mentorship
- Role clarification
- Defining Mentoring
- Identifying the role of a mentor vs. manager for development
- What makes a good mentor and a good mentee
- Mentor Matching
- Deciding if and how mentors should be assigned
- Identifying who should become mentors and why
- The different types of mentoring
- What the steps are in the mentoring process
- How to initiate the relationship
- The discussion needed to establish the process
- Developing expectations on both sides
- Expanding beyond towards the future
- Tools and tips for:
- Mentorship conversations
- Maintaining the relationship
- Techniques that can be used to improve the relationship
- The possible pitfalls with mentoring programs
Who Will Benefit:
- HR Professionals
Tim Wasserman Helps organizations and individuals plan, design, implement and scale strategic Talent initiatives that improve their organizational alignment, innovation, and adaptive execution capabilities. A skilled collaborator, team builder, coach and thought leader, Tim is currently focusing on the critical intersection where the Future of Work meets the Future of Learning, and the implications for organizations, their leaders and their team members.
He speaks, writes and delivers workshops globally, and is a frequent lecturer at Stanford University, on topics including adaptive leadership, strategy execution, team effectiveness, organizational change and transformation, and developing learning organizations. Tim has contributed to the development and delivery of many ITS workshop and learning offerings.
His diverse background includes serving as Chief Learning Officer for global consultancies Strategy Execution and IPS Learning, where he helped develop, direct, and scale the award-winning Stanford Advanced Project Management (SAPM) program - a dynamic global partnership of renowned University faculty and expert practitioners in the field. In addition, he led the development of the Adaptive Strategic Execution Program (ASEP) in partnership with Duke Corporate Education and the Duke Fuqua School of Business.
Tim has led global learning design and development, product management and implementation teams distributed across the Americas, Middle East, Asia, India and Europe, with responsibility for the delivery of innovative multi-modality product portfolios for clients including Apple, Barclays, Boeing, Cisco, Cognizant, EU Parliament, Hewlett-Packard, Kaiser Permanente, Medtronic, Nationwide, Nordstrom, Prudential, Saudi Industrial Development Fund, and Visa. In addition, he has led product development efforts for Bay Group International, First Nationwide Bank, and MOHR Development in the areas of sales, customer service and leadership.