5 Strategies to Support Onboarding Programs with Mentoring

Onboarding programs are an essential tool to increase employee engagement, especially during that critical first year of employment. Mentoring is a helpful onboarding program strategy that allows you to connect your newcomers to more experienced team members, giving them authentic interaction with their colleagues and quick transfers of company culture.

This video offers deep and actionable insight into why you should use mentoring as part of your onboarding process, and tips on how to accomplish it from HR leaders at various organizations.

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0:00 - Welcome to MentorcliQ's Mentoring Soundbites

0:36 - Get Leaders Involved in Program Design

1:42 - Support Participants with Clear Structure

3:25 - Prioritize Mentoring Opportunities to Increase Engagement

4:06 - Extend the Onboarding Experience with Multiple Program Types

6:47 - Plan with the End in mind

7:56 - What Hurdles Have You Face with Onboarding?

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Key Quotes from "5 Strategies to Support Onboarding Programs with Mentoring":

1. "Our mentors meet monthly, but it's one competency per quarter. For example, business writing or written communication is one of the competencies."
2. "They're really trying to get activities that focus on what they'll be doing in the real world."
3. "And as we tell our mentors and mentees, definitely if you're a mentee, this hour is for your development."
4. "The other thing that we're kind of playing around with is almost a skills mentoring program where there's people who wanna learn more about PowerPoint, people who wanna learn more about Excel...and then we have those people who are really good who like to help people."

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DEI is not just a one-and-done goal. It's also not something your organization should do halfway. Here are some additional tips to make sure DEI is done right at your company:

-3 Ways Mentoring Helps Create Successful Onboarding Programs

-Why Peer and Reverse Mentoring Make Sense for Onboarding Programs

-Improve Millennial Engagement through Onboarding Programs