Unlock the potential of your workforce
Structured mentoring programs that strengthen leadership, engagement and retention.
A well designed mentoring program can transform how your people grow, lead and connect. We partner with government departments and large organisations to design and deliver mentoring programs that retain top talent, improve engagement metrics and build strong internal leadership pipelines.
Discuss your next programWhy Organisations Invest in Mentoring
The right mentoring program creates measurable outcomes for both your people and your organisation.
Having your own mentoring program unlocks many benefits, such as:
- Higher retention: Participants who feel supported in their growth stay long
- Improved leadership capability: Mentoring accelerates the readiness of future leaders
- Greater engagement: When people feel invested in, performance and satisfaction rise.
- Stronger Culture: Mentoring connects teams across divisions and builds collaboration
- Better employer reputation: Participants become advocates for your organisation and its mission.
Improve the confidence and skills of your people by giving them the opportunity of mentoring.
Our Proven Framework
All our next level business mentoring programs follow a simple 5 stage iterative process to ensure there is structure to building your program.
The closed loop allows feedback from previous programs to help improve the next programs to your people.
With each iteration, your program matures and embeds mentoring as part of your culture.
1. Plan
Understand your organisation's objectives, structure and culture and design your program accordingly.
2. Establish
Identify the participants of the program, run the proven matchmaking process and provide training upfront to enable the program to start with confidence.
3. Execute
Kick-off your program, facilitate sessions, monitor engagement and provide ongoing coaching as needed.
4. Conclude
Finish your mentoring program with positivity and allow your participants to reflect on the journey.
5. Evaluate
Gather the right feedback, evaluate the results, and refine the program for sustained success.
Principles of Success
There are four principles when designing a successful mentoring program. These four principles support one another and are equally valuable to ensure your program is a success for your company, and your employees.
Simple
A great program needs to be easy to understand, has clearly defined roles, and doesn’t overwhelm people with unnecessary information or requirements. This allows each program to flow smoothly from concept to close-out with high participant satisfaction.
Sustainable
Ensuring each program continues delivering value beyond the first year through identifying any barriers, and implementing solutions to overcome them.
Effective
A structured program ensures both the participants and the Company gets maximum value from mentoring. We provide the right tools and processes to guarantee the right conditions for success.
Engaging
Having mentors and mentees enthusiastic about how great the program is, is a great way to showcase your company, and encourage others to want to be part of it.
Mentoring is an effective way of attracting and retaining your people.
Program inclusions
Each program is customised to your organisations needs.
All NLM programs typically include the following, which will guarantee success:
- Planning sessions for the program
- Frameworks to ensure suitable uptake in the workforce
- Our proven matchmaking process
- Training for the mentors and mentee
- 3 facilitated group sessions per year (kick-off, mid-program and close-out ceremony)
- Individual goals coaching session for each mentoring pair.
- Regular program feedback including mid and end-of-program report.
- Mentor accreditation to reward the mentors.
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AMPI
"NLM has provided support and invaluable guidance for the Australian Maritime Mentoring Program, in addition to running several webinars that have been well received by our members. Their commitment and expertise in the field of mentoring are second to none. We intend to continue working with NLM in the future."
Woodside
"Bringing in outside expertise from NLM helped increase the credibility of the program for the participants – more so than if it was run internally. This played a role in the program's success."
You can check out Woodside's full media release on our mentoring program
Investment and ROI
When mentoring is done well it helps develop and retain talented people in your business and ensures future succession planning.
Lets assume your mentoring program provides development opportunities to 50 people; 25 mentees and 25 mentors. Several of those are probably thinking about leaving your organisation due to a range of reasons.
If 1 of these people decides to stay with the company because you gave them the opportunity to grow themselves then the program has already paid for itself.
Why is that?
The cost to the Company of someone leaving can be anything from 150% to 400% their annual salary dependent on the role and the access to equivalent talent.
These costs consist of
- costs to the person leaving,
- costs to hire including recruiters fees,
- cost to train up the new hire,
- cost of lost productivity,
- the ripple effect it has on other people who may also decide to leave
Combining these costs, if you stopping one person leaving then you have saved your business, on average, $250,000 AUD.
Your new mentoring program has already paid for itself... and a lot more.
