Personnel, Training and Education Group

Here there are some additional things to think about:

• Organisational objectives as well as personal objectives.
• Responsibility for co-ordination and management. Usually this is a personnel or training officer.
• Identification of learners. Will they be selected or asked to put names forward?
• Recruitment of mentors. These are usually senior or experienced people. Do you want conscripts or volunteers? Will they be given any reward or allowance? How many learners can a mentor work with and maintain their other responsibilities?
• Matching partners. The success of any scheme will depend on this decision. Mentors and learners can be offered a choice or paired up using recognised criteria.
• Support for mentors. This may include ‘relief time’ or mentor meetings. Mentoring is a potential drain on an individual’s resources and this needs to be recognised by the organisation.
• Monitoring and Evaluation. If mentoring is to be an organisational success, indicators of its value should be developed which relate closely to the objectives. Partners need to know how they should monitor progress in the relationship and feed back results to the co-ordinator.

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