Welcome to Menttium’s Cross-Company Mentoring Programs! We are excited to partner with you!

Key leaders provide important perspectives for nominations of program participants – mentees and mentors. Use this sample email to communicate your partnership with Menttium and the key details needed to make nominations. Customize this to reflect your company’s goals for the program.

Dear <Business Leader>,

We are pleased to announce our continued partnership with Menttium Corporation. Menttium offers formal Cross-Company mentoring programs for high-potential employees and emerging leaders, and matches them with senior level leaders from different companies for a year-long partnership. In addition to a customized match with a mentor, Menttium will support our designated participants with goal setting, developing a professional network and supplemental business education webinars.

Cross-Company mentoring provides us with an opportunity to recognize and reward our high-performing, high-potential talent. Participants in Menttium programs, over 95% of the time, have increased desire to stay at their current companies (retention), increased engagement in their jobs and see faster promotion rates due to increased confidence, leadership skills and the opportunity to practice new concepts with their external mentor.

We can also provide a unique opportunity for our senior leaders to become potential mentors for high-performing professionals from another participating company. This experience provides senior leaders with an unparalleled perspective  into challenges and opportunities other industries face.

Our partner, Menttium Corporation, provides all the tools, training, and support for participant success including mentor effectiveness training.

At this time, we are currently seeking nominations for program participation. Qualified mentees and mentors should be committed to personal and professional development and must be willing to commit one to two hours per month for the 12-month program.

If you have a candidate you would like to nominate, please forward your nomination to me by August 7, 2021.

Best Regards,

<Signature>

Human Resources Business Partners can be utilized to help narrow a list of nominations, to access HR records or data used in the selection process, or to help ensure program nominations are aligned to corporate goals such as inclusion or diversity efforts. Use this sample email to communicate your partnership with Menttium and the key criteria needed to make nominations. Customize this to reflect your company’s goals for the program.

Dear <HRBP>,

We are pleased to announce our continued partnership with Menttium Corporation. Menttium offers formal Cross-Company mentoring programs for high-potential employees and emerging leaders, and matches them with senior level leaders from different companies for a year-long partnership. In addition to a customized match with a mentor, Menttium will support our designated participants with goal setting, developing a professional network, and supplemental business education webinars.

Cross-Company mentoring provides us with an opportunity to recognize and reward our high-performing, high-potential talent. Participants in Menttium programs, over 95% of the time, have increased desire to stay at their current companies (retention), increased engagement in their jobs and see faster promotion rates due to increased confidence, leadership skills and the opportunity to practice new concepts with their external mentor before trying to implement a new concept within their current roles.

We can also provide a unique development opportunity to our senior leaders to become potential mentors to high-performing professionals from another participating company. This opportunity provides senior leaders with an unparalleled perspective  into challenges and opportunities other industries face.

Our partner, Menttium Corporation, provides all the tools, training, and support for participant success including mentor effectiveness training.

At this time, we are currently seeking nominations for program participation. Qualified mentees and mentors should be committed to personal and professional development and must be willing to commit one to two hours per month for a the 12 month program duration.

We have requested nominations from business leaders, but we will rely on you to be part of the final nomination and selection process to ensure we are enrolling the strongest candidates. We will form a wait list for anyone not selected in this round. Please forward your nomination to me by August 7, 2021.

Best Regards,

<Signature>

Use this sample communication to inform supervisors and managers of their employee’s participation in the Menttium program and to outline the expectations for managers.

Dear <Manager of Mentee>,

We are pleased that <Employee Name> has been selected to participate in the upcoming Menttium Program, a Cross-Company mentoring program that matches high-performing professionals with senior leaders from another company for a year of one-to-one mentoring. Additionally, the program offers business education sessions and networking opportunities with business professionals across the globe.

You play an essential role in supporting and reinforcing your employeee’s learning and development in this year-long program. Below are the highlights of the program and the expectations of both you and your employee.

Prior to the Program Launch, your employee will:

• Attend an online Program Orientation
• Complete a Pre-Mentoring Assessment
• Prepare goals and objectives for the program
• Complete an online profile and phone interview with Menttium staff

During the Program Year your employee will need to protect time to:

• Attend the online Program Launch event
• Meet for 1-2 hours monthly with her/his mentor
• Attend online business education webinars on leadership development topics
• Complete online check-in surveys quarterly that are used to provide measurement data back to our organization

As a manager, your role is to:

• Discuss with your employee why she/he was selected for the program, and how you will support full participation
• Complete a Pre-Mentoring Assessment for your employee
• Assist your employee in developing program goals and identifying possible growth opportunities
• Respect the confidentiality of discussions between your employee and his/her mentor
• You will be asked to complete online check-in surveys measuring your employee’s progress
• At the end of the program, you will be asked to complete a Post-Mentoring Assessment, measurement data will be utilized by our organization to determine the success of the program

This opportunity enables your employee to expand her/his leadership and management skills, and is likely to positively impact her/his effectiveness in the organization. It is a mentee-driven experience; your employee will be expected to lead the partnership. Please afford her/him the flexibility to take full advantage of the program. Thank you for your support.  I look forward to partnering with you and will act as your primary contact for questions.

Best Regards,

<Signature>

A direct communication from the CEO conveys the distinguishing honor of an employee’s participation in this program.  It reinforces the message that the program is important to your company’s leadership. Use this sample as the suggested text for a communication from your CEO or a Senior Champion to selected mentees.

Dear <Mentee>,

Congratulations on your nomination into the Menttium Cross-Company Mentoring Program. We are pleased to make this investment in your professional development and know you will maximize this opportunity before you. As you develop your goals and objectives for the coming year, keep our business strategies in mind:

• Strategy 1
• Strategy 2

Aligning your professional goals to your organization’s strategies is part of the art of leadership. We hope you will achieve an optimal balance for both through the Menttium Mentoring Program.

We look forward to your success in this program. We anticipate that it will increase your confidence, improve your ability to take professional risks, expand your decision-making skills and help you to spark innovative solutions to work challenges.

I welcome your comments, suggestions, and questions about how you can best leverage this unparalleled development opportunity. Best wishes for success.

Best Regards,

<Signature>

Use this sample email communication to congratulate mentee nominees and advise them of the upcoming Program Orientation.

Dear <Mentee Name>,

Congratulations! As one of our highly valued employees, you have been nominated to participate as a mentee in a Menttium mentoring program. This elite Cross-Company program brings together the most promising talent from a variety of companies for a year of unparalleled professional and personal development. As a mentee, you will join other highly talented future leaders from around the world to engage in formal one-to-one mentoring.  Based on your development goals, you will be matched with a senior leader from a different company for one-to-one meetings focused on your professional development.  Menttium will be contacting you to establish a time to learn more about you and your preferences for a mentor. Your first email will arrive shortly from Menttium Support <support@menttium.com>.

The mentor you will be matched with will have/be:

• Broad and extensive professional experience
• A track record of strong performance and leadership
• Effective communication and feedback skills
• Open to the two-way learning inherent in a mentoring partnership
• Motivated to mentor
• Willing to invest time each month for mentoring meetings

You were nominated by <(Name – i.e.: your leadership team; your manager; a colleague, etc.)> in recognition of your contributions and to provide you with additional development opportunities. You join <Number> other <Your Company Name> mentees in this year’s program.

Please watch for an email from Menttium which will provide you with more details on how to begin your mentoring experience and take action right away.

Please contact me with any questions you may have throughout your mentoring experience.

Best Regards,

<Signature – HR point of Contact>

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Mentees and their managers will receive a Welcome to Menttium email with instructions for their next steps.

Mentees and their managers will complete the program pre-work including their pre-mentoring assessment, online profile, goal setting and phone interview.

Menttium will begin selecting a mentor for each individual mentee based on the pre-work data collected, taking into account their individual unique goals, career aspirations, ideal mentor criteria, etc.

Menttium will send match notification to mentees and gauge excitement level in the proposed match. We have a 95% success rate in matching, but will remedy and match concerns prior to or during the program year.

Mentees and mentors will attend a live webinar providing instructions for how to fully leverage the mentoring experience. Partnerships will establish their introductory meetings and begin connecting with each other.

Mentees, their Managers and Mentors will be invited to attend monthly Business Education Webinars, will receive monthly eMinders providing tools and resources to support their partnership and will receive quarterly check-ins from Menttium that will be aggregated and anonymized to share back with the program owner at your corporation.