Human Resource Project

Create a 350 to 500-word executive summary as a team outlining the reasons why a company of your choice should invest in a mentoring program.

• Provide the needs analysis assessment and outcome for a mentoring program
• Determine if the mentoring program will be formal or informal
• When will the organization realize the return on the investment
• Evaluate any legal considerations of the program
• Conduct a SWOT analysis that will summarize the Benefits and Risks of a mentoring program
• Determine how the program will be measured

1. Employee development is a career-long process.  There is often more emphasis on preparing line employees for the next step than building good managers.  Describe a manager development program with which you are familiar?  What makes it successful?  How is it different from other development programs in the organization?
2. What are some mentoring practices that you have seen or participated in that were particularly effective?   Why?  How were the mentors chosen and how durable was the mentoring relationship?

3. After watching the video, describe a situation with which you are familiar where coaching was used to guide an employee back in the right direction?  Why was coaching a better choice, in the particular situation, than progressive discipline?   Did it work?

4. Discuss a situation where a manager or HR employee successfully mediated a disagreement between employees or a divergence of opinions?   Was it a formal mediation program or an ad hoc intervention?

5. “Discipline” does not sound like an employee development term but it can be if early steps are paired with well-developed action plans.   Describe a situation with which you are familiar where an action plan was successfully used in a progressive discipline situation.