Overview
This comprehensive toolkit outlines a framework for organizations to effectively promote mentoring programs in order to drive better engagement and more successful outcomes. Proper promotion leads to a greater number of mentoring participants, higher program engagement, and increased program productivity, leading to more successful mentoring experiences.
The guide provides guidance on:
Preparing Your Promotional Timeline
Creating Promotional Materials for Various Marketing Channels
Identifying Ambassadors to Help You Spread the Word
Reporting on Your Promotional Efforts
Maintaining Program Excitement
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About The Toolkit
Mentoring program engagement is not something that should be left to chance. In order to create consistent, impactful engagement you need to a robust promotion strategy. Our promotional toolkit is full of best practices, customizable content, and an overall guide to aid you in successfully promoting, launching and scaling your mentoring program.
With this toolkit, you’ll be equipped with the materials and timelines needed to plan the launch of your mentoring program. Together, these assets will help you excite and engage prospective mentors, mentees, and organizational stakeholders.
What You’ll Learn | Resource | Type |
Overview of why promotion is so important before launching a mentoring program, and a guide to using the promotional materials included | Guide to Promoting Your Mentoring Program | Guide |
Establish dates and deadlines for promotional activities and events | Promotion Timeline | Worksheet |
Suggestions of different events you can use to promote your program within your organization | Mentoring Program Activities Guide | Guide |
Crafted email templates that can help you spread the word about your mentoring program to prospective participants | Email Templates | Template |
Sample social posts you can use within your social media channels to alert people to mentoring program enrollment or participation | Social Media Assests | Images |
Elevate the benefits of mentoring to your individual mentors and mentees. | Benefits of Mentoring: Stats & Research | Stats |
Customizable Powerpoint deck for presenting informational sessions to your mentor, mentees or senior leadership | Kick-off Presentation | Powerpoint Deck |
When mentoring is done right, including effective promotion, organizations can see greater participation for overall higher employee satisfaction, leading to better retention, development and engagement.