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Work-based Mentoring

Today more and more companies are starting mentoring programs to help the young people who live in the communities where the companies do business. Some mentoring takes place at a school or site and other times mentees join their mentor at the workplace.

According to a study done by the Mentor Consulting Group, the benefits of mentoring can extend beyond the impacts on a young person to positively affect the life and work of the volunteer mentor.

Benefits to Business – Small and Large

Employees:

• Return to work happier; increase in morale
• More appreciative of youth from diverse backgrounds
• Feel better about themselves for having impacted a child's life
• Improve understanding of the school system
• Better able to relate to children
• Learn more about themselves; work longer hours
• Improve own values and belief system
• Increase own sense of responsibility
• Get along better with own spouses, children and significant partners
• Accept more challenges at work and home

Business:

• Improves its image in the community
• Increases community awareness of its mission
  

VMP can help your business discuss the best way to structure a mentoring program, design a "menu" of options for employees, conduct information sessions, and can help guide you in setting up a partnership with a local school.