Mentoring Future Leaders

Mentoring Future Leaders
The Role of a
Mentoring Champion or Co-ordinator
Key activities include:
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April 2005
One of the most common reasons why mentoring
programmes fail, is because nobody drives them. It is
estimated that a co-ordinator has to spend one day
per week for every 20 mentoring pairs. The coordinator
is the cog in the wheel who does the
troubleshooting for strained relationships, establish and
keep the support systems operative, and who keeps the
show on the road.
• Managing the publicity for the scheme and the recruitment of mentors
and mentees.
• Arranging initial training and follow-up.
• Maintaining the website.
• Administering the matching process and any reassignments that are
needed.
• Ensuring that evaluation and review processes take place when they
are supposed to.
• Managing the budgets and quality control processes.
• Being the public face of the programme to audiences inside and
outside the organisation.
Discussion
(Clutterbuck, 2001, p.97)
• Do you have a mentoring co-ordinator? Yes No
• Which other functions do you believe the co-ordinator should take
care of?
• In the absence of such a person, who takes care of the programme?
• Where do you think you can still improve?
Notes:
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