Resources
Practical guides for stronger mentoring programs.
Practical guides for planning, launching, supporting and measuring a mentoring programme - written for the person who has to run it.
Mentoring program launch checklist
The six-week sequence for getting a corporate mentoring programme live without a big budget - scoping, recruitment, matching and the first cohort.
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Mentor and mentee onboarding guide
What the strongest 90-day programmes have in common, and how to onboard both sides of a pair so the first session is not the awkward one.
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Matching strategy workbook
The seven matching criteria that actually predict programme success - and how to weigh them against each other rather than collecting all of them.
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Engagement and re-engagement
Why pairs go silent, how to spot it before the closing survey does, and five interventions that get them talking again.
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Quarterly outcome report framework
The six metrics worth reporting to leadership, the three to stop treating as primary KPIs, and how to present them.
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Choosing a programme model
Cohort or always-on? The trade-offs in administration, matching and measurement, and which one suits the outcome you are after.
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Designing for equity
Building a mentoring programme that advances equity rather than documenting it, including the privacy decisions that come with the data.
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Keeping senior mentors engaged
How to get senior leaders mentoring well without adding to their plate - the part most programmes get wrong after week three.
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Moving off spreadsheets
The five signs a mentoring programme has outgrown a spreadsheet, and what the migration actually involves.
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Alumni and student mentoring
How universities use alumni mentoring to improve student career outcomes, and what it takes to run it at the scale of a cohort.
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Downloadable templates — a mentoring agreement, a programme proposal, an action plan — are not published yet. When they are, they will appear here as files you can actually open. Until then these guides are the working version, and our team will share the underlying template on request.